English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 2

So one day, when his little boy was four years old, he looked into the Book of Fate to see what would happen to him.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: be, look, see, happen · To what, where: magician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy), 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	_	15 looked	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 Book	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Book	det
18	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Fate	case
20	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Book	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 looked	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 happen	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happen	aux
25	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 happen	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	magician's little boy		year	old property	tree rules
2	look	past	boy		day	into the Book of Fate	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into book=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	would		magician			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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