More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 28

So he got up and began to look about him again, and on one table he saw three saucers, of which one was very big, one was middling, one was quite a little saucer.

Who acts: Scrapefoot, one · What happens: get up, begin, look, see, be, middle · To what, where: three saucers, one table, little saucer

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 got	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 table	nummod
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 saucers	nummod
20	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 big	punct
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 big	mark
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 big	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 big	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 big	advmod
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saw	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 middling	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 middling	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 middling	aux
31	middling	middle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 big	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saucer	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 saucer	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 saucer	cop
35	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	38 saucer	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 saucer	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 saucer	amod
38	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 middling	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	Scrapefoot					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	Scrapefoot not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	Scrapefoot not said here			again	about Scrapefoot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
4	see	past	Scrapefoot	three saucers	one table			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saucer=Stimulus
5	is	past	which one				big property	tree rules
6	middle	past · progressive	one					tree rules
7	is a	past	one	quite little saucer				tree rules

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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