English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 49

Then the third miller's man laid down his tool and looked up,

Who acts: man · What happens: lay down, look up · To what, where: tool

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 laid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 miller	amod
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	nsubj
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 laid	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tool	nmod:poss
10	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 looked	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	the third miller's man	father's tool			then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Result
2	look up	past	the third miller's man not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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