The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 145

He went up, and the old man gave the Eagle the word to be off, which she instantly obeyed; and every time she turned her head the Irishman threw a quarter of beef into her mouth.

Who acts: Irishman, old man, noise · What happens: go up, give, obey, turn, throw · To what, where: word, Eagle, head, quarter, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, old man, noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Eagle	det
11	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 off	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 off	cop
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 word	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obeyed	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 obeyed	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obeyed	nsubj
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	21 obeyed	advmod
21	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 word	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 threw	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl:unmarked
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turned	nsubj
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	acl:relcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Irishman	det
31	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 quarter	det
34	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 beef	case
36	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 quarter	nmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 mouth	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mouth	nmod:poss
39	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Irishman					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	give	past	the old man	the word	the Eagle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient word=Theme
3	obey	past	noise	the word			instantly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	turn	past	noise	noise's head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	throw	past	the Irishman	a quarter of beef		time	into noise's mouth result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer quarter=Theme into mouth=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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