The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 34

On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it a’ brown wi’ rust.

Who acts: this, younger brither · What happens: happen, take out, look, grieve, find · To what, where: knife, man, brither

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, younger brither), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brither	det
8	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 brither	amod
9	brither	brither	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knife	det
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grieved	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grieved	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grieved	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grieved	aux:pass
22	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 happened	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 grieved	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rust	det
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 wi	punct
28	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wi	amod
29	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rust	compound
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 wi	punct
31	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	this		morning		tree rules
2	take out	past	the younger brither	the knife			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive	the younger brither not said here			at brither	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	grieve	past · passive		man			tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive		brither			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme rust=Attribute

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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