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title: So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieke… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ‘Oof!’ again; but when the man had plucked the third, Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain, but for all that he went on sleeping. Who acts: Farmer, man. A sentenc
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 70

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So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ‘Oof!’ again; but when the man had plucked the third, Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain, but for all that he went on sleeping.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, man · **What happens:** pluck out, shriek, pluck, scream, think, rend · **To what, where:** man, Oof, third, brick, twain, sleeping · **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 (Farmer, man), 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:pg540:43:70
# text = So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ‘Oof!’ again; but when the man had plucked the third, Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain, but for all that he went on sleeping.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Oof	oof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	ccomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck out** | participle · passive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **shriek** | past | Farmer | Oof |  |  | then; again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oof=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** | past · perfect | the man | the third |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient |
| 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | Farmer |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **rend** | would · passive |  | brick and mortar |  | twain |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | past | Farmer |  |  | sleeping |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=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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