English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 3

So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: go down, draw, happen, look up, see, stick · To what, where: beer, mallet

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	6 gone	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 draw	mark
9	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beer	det
11	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 happened	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 happened	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 look	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 ceiling	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ceiling	det
21	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 drawing	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drawing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drawing	aux
25	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 look	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happened	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mallet	det
31	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
32	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 mallet	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 stuck	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 beams	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beams	det
37	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · perfect	daughter		evening	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	draw	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	the beer			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
3	happen	past	daughter				tree rules
4	look up	to-infinitive	daughter not said here			at the ceiling	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ceiling=Theme
5	draw	past · progressive	daughter				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	daughter	a mallet			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mallet=Stimulus
7	stick	participle		a mallet not said here		in one of the beams	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in one=Destination

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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