The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 79

He found he had left his knife at home, but by good chance, there was a plough lying close at hand, so he took the coulter of this to cut the bread with.

Who acts: way, plough · What happens: find, leave, be, lie, take, cut · To what, where: knife, home, hand, coulter, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, plough), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 found	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knife	nmod:poss
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 chance	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chance	amod
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chance	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plough	det
19	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 plough	acl
21	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 lying	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 hand	case
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 took	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coulter	det
29	coulter	coulter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 this	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 coulter	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cut	mark
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 took	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bread	det
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	33 cut	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	way				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect	way	way's knife	home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme at home=Location
3	be	past	a plough		there	by good chance	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
4	lie	gerund	a plough not said here		hand	close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location
5	take	past	way	the coulter of this			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coulter=Theme
6	cut	to-infinitive	way not said here	the bread			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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