The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 94

He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in his hand, with which he was fencing with a great monkey, the child being then only three years of age.

Who acts: Ogress, fencing · What happens: go, find out, see, fence, be · To what, where: little Day, Ogress, three years

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogress, fencing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Day	amod
7	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 foil	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 foil	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 foil	amod
15	foil	foil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foil	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fencing	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fencing	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fencing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fencing	aux
24	fencing	fence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 years	csubj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 monkey	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 monkey	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 monkey	amod
28	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fencing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 child	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 monkey	conj
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 years	cop
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 years	advmod
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 three	advmod
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 age	case
38	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 years	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ogress				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find out	to-infinitive	Ogress not said here	little Day			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Topic
3	see	past	Ogress not said here	Ogress		with a little foil in Ogress's hand	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	fence	past · progressive	Ogress		with three years	with a great monkey and the child	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with which=Co-Agent
5	is a	gerund	fencing	three years	of age; then		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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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