English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 33
On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it all brown with rust.
Who acts: this, younger brother · What happens: happen, take out, look, grieve, find · To what, where: morning, knife, brother
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. 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 brother), 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 | 11 took | obl |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 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 | 3 morning | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knife | det |
| 14 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grieved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grieved | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grieved | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grieved | aux:pass |
| 23 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 took | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 grieved | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 brown | det |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 find | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 rust | case |
| 30 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brown | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | the morning not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | the younger brother | the knife | morning | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the younger brother not said here | at knife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grieve | past · passive | brother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | knife | brown property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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