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title: When she questioned them all, the eagle was not there, but it came s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she questioned them all, the eagle was not there, but it came soon afterwards, and when asked, it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard’s. Who acts: woman, eagle. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 62

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When she questioned them all, the eagle was not there, but it came soon afterwards, and when asked, it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard’s.

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**Who acts:** woman, eagle · **What happens:** question, not be, come, ask, say · **To what, where:** birds, Farmer Weatherbeard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, eagle), 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:pg540:43:62
# text = When she questioned them all, the eagle was not there, but it came soon afterwards, and when asked, it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard’s.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | past | woman | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the eagle |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | eagle |  |  |  |  | afterwards, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | past · perfect | eagle |  |  | Farmer Weatherbeard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from weatherbeard=Initial\_Location |

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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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