The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 81

He then took a great knife, and, coming up to these poor children, whetted it upon a great whet-stone which he held in his left hand.

Who acts: ogre, great whet stone · What happens: take, come up, whet, hold · To what, where: great knife, knife, left hand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, great whet stone), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knife	amod
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 coming	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 coming	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 children	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 children	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 coming	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whetted	punct
17	whetted	whet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whetted	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 stone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stone	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stone	amod
22	whet	whet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stone	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 whet	punct
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whetted	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 held	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stone	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
30	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hand	amod
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	ogre	a great knife		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	come up	gerund	ogre not said here				to this poor children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location
3	whet	past	ogre not said here	knife			upon a great whet stone	tree rules
4	hold	past	a great whet stone		ogre's left hand			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

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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