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title: ‘Oof!’ screamed Farmer Weatherbeard. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oof!’ screamed Farmer Weatherbeard. Who acts: Oof. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 69

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‘Oof!’ screamed Farmer Weatherbeard.

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**Who acts:** Oof · **What happens:** scream · **To what, where:** Farmer

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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 (Oof), 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:pg540:43:69
# text = ‘Oof!’ screamed Farmer Weatherbeard.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oof	oof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | Oof | Farmer |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Topic |

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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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