The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 106

“I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple.

Who acts: useless creature, mouse, blow, house · What happens: tore, begin, find, sit, eat · To what, where: coat, blow, door, apple

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (useless creature, mouse, blow, house), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 tore	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tore	nsubj
3	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coat	nmod:poss
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	obj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tore	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tore	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 found	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 began	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obj
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 found	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 door	nmod
25	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 house	acl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 apple	det
27	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eating	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tore in a quote	past	what useless creature = creature	my coat		morning	tree rules
2	begin	past	mouse				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	find	past · perfect	mouse	blow			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
4	sit	gerund	blow not said here		the door of blow's house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5	eat	gerund	blow's house not said here	a apple			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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