--- title: When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest, the old woman plucke… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest, the old woman plucked a feather out of its tail, and set the man in the feather’s place, and then the bird flew away with him, but they did not get to Farmer Weatherbeard’s before midnight. Who acts: eagle, old woman, bird, birds. A sentence of «The Re --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Farmer Weatherbeard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/) / 65 # The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 65 When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest, the old woman plucked a feather out of its tail, and set the man in the feather’s place, and then the bird flew away with him, but they did not get to Farmer Weatherbeard’s before midnight. **Who acts:** eagle, old woman, bird, birds · **What happens:** have, pluck, set, fly away, not get · **To what, where:** plenty, feather, tail, man, place, Farmer 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 (eagle, old woman, bird, birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:43:65 # text = When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest, the old woman plucked a feather out of its tail, and set the man in the feather’s place, and then the bird flew away with him, but they did not get to Farmer Weatherbeard’s before midnight. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Farmer Farmer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 Weatherbeard Weatherbeard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’s 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 51 before before ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the eagle | plenty of food and rest | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | | 2 | **pluck** | past | the old woman | a feather | | name's tail | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Source | | 3 | **set** | infinitive | | the man | | the feather's place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in place=Destination | | 4 | **fly away** | past | the bird | | | | then | with Weatherbeard; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | birds *= bird* | Farmer | | | midnight | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/66/) - ↑ back to [Farmer Weatherbeard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/)