The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 24

One day, as I was counting the bees, I discovered that my best bee was missing, and without losing a moment I saddled a cock and went out to look for him.

Who acts: I, best bee · What happens: count, discover, be, lose, saddle, go out · To what, where: bees, cock

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, best bee), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 counting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 counting	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 counting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 counting	aux
7	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bees	det
9	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 counting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 discovered	nsubj
12	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 missing	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bee	nmod:poss
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 bee	amod
16	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 missing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 missing	cop
18	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 discovered	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saddled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saddled	cc
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 losing	mark
22	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saddled	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 losing	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 saddled	nsubj
26	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 discovered	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cock	det
28	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saddled	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saddled	conj
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	advcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	count	past · progressive	I	the bees				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme
2	discover	past	I			day		vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	my best bee				missing property	tree rules
4	lose	gerund	I not said here			moment		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	saddle	past	I		a cock			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cock=Destination
6	go out	past	I not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	to-infinitive	I not said here				for man	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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