The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 17

When he had eaten he began to look about him, and was surprised to see an animal sitting by the fire different from anything he had ever noticed before.

Who acts: fellow, animal · What happens: eat, begin, look, be, see, sit · To what, where: animal

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, animal), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 surprised	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 surprised	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 surprised	cop
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 surprised	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 animal	det
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 animal	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
23	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sitting	xcomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 anything	case
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 different	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 noticed	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 noticed	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 noticed	advmod
29	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 anything	acl:relcl
30	before	before	ADV	_	29 noticed	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	fellow				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	fellow				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	fellow not said here			about fellow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
4	is	past	fellow not said here			surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	fellow not said here	a animal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
6	sit	gerund	a animal not said here			by the fire; different property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
7	notice	past · perfect	fellow		ever	before property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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