The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 36

So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the largest bread-knife that he could find; then he caught hold of the third loaf on the left-hand side, and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it straight in two.

Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim · What happens: go up, begin, sharpen, find, catch, put · To what, where: largest bread knife, hold, hand side, knife, two, third loaf

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Dapplegrim), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sharpen	mark
13	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
15	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 knife	amod
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knife	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bread	punct
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sharpen	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knife	acl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 caught	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 caught	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	nsubj
26	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
27	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 caught	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 loaf	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loaf	det
30	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 loaf	amod
31	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	nmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	37 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 side	det
34	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hand	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 side	compound
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 caught	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 put	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 put	cc
40	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 caught	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 knife	det
42	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 put	obl
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 meant	mark
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 meant	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 meant	nsubj
48	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 put	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 cut	mark
50	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 meant	xcomp
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 cut	obj
52	straight	straight	ADV	_	50 cut	advmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 two	case
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 cut	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the youth					to the kitchen	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	begin	past	the youth not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sharpen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the largest bread knife					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	find	could	Dapplegrim	the largest bread knife not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic
5	catch	past	Dapplegrim	hold of the third loaf		the hand side	then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	put	infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here	the knife	knife				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knife=Goal
7	mean	past	Dapplegrim						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here	knife		two		straight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
9	hold			the third loaf					nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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