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title: ‘Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his hea… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his head,’ said the Eagle. Who acts: you, Eagle. 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 83

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‘Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his head,’ said the Eagle.

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**Who acts:** you, Eagle · **What happens:** throw down, pluck out, say · **To what, where:** three feathers, head · **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 (you, 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:pg540:43:83
# text = ‘Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his head,’ said the Eagle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | infinitive |  | the three feathers |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
| 2 | **pluck out** | past | you | the three feathers |  | Farmer's head |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary head=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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