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title: Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears. Who acts: Farmer, ashes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 143

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Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, ashes · **What happens:** change, scratch, scrape, be · **To what, where:** Farmer, fireplace

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

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:43:143
# text = Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears.
1	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	scraped	scrape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Farmer | Farmer |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **scratch** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into a hare | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into hare=Patient |
| 3 | **scrape** | past | Farmer *not said here* |  |  | the fireplace | after the ring | about *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the ashes |  |  |  | until ring's ears |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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