More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 17

Tom now saw that he had more strength than twenty men, and began to be very merry, taking delight in company, in going to fairs and meetings, in seeing sports and pastimes.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: see, have, begin, be, take, go · To what, where: more strength, delight, company, fairs, sports · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 strength	amod
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 men	case
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 merry	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 merry	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 merry	advmod
18	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 merry	advcl
21	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 company	case
23	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 going	mark
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 began	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 fairs	case
28	fairs	fair	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 going	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 meetings	cc
30	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fairs	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seeing	punct
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 seeing	mark
33	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 began	advcl
34	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seeing	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pastimes	cc
36	pastimes	pastime	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sports	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Tom			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	Tom	more strength			than twenty men	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
3	begin	past	Tom not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				merry property	tree rules
5	take	gerund	Tom not said here	delight	company			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in company=Location
6	go	gerund	Tom not said here		fairs and meetings			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location
7	see	gerund	Tom not said here	sports and pastimes				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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