Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 103

About an hour after he came to the edge of the bog, and what did he find Jack at but sharpening a carving knife, and the sheep standing or grazing round.

Who acts: master, sheep · What happens: come, find, sharpen, stand, graze · To what, where: edge, Jack, carving knife

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, sheep), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 hour	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bog	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bog	det
12	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 find	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
19	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	22 sharpening	mark
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sharpening	cc
22	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 find	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knife	det
24	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knife	compound
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sharpening	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 standing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 standing	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sheep	det
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 standing	nsubj
30	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 grazing	cc
32	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 standing	conj
33	round	round	ADV	_	32 grazing	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	master		the edge of the bog	hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
2	find	past · do-support	master	Jack				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme jack=Attribute
3	sharpen	gerund	master not said here	a carving knife				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	stand	gerund	the sheep					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	graze	gerund	the sheep not said here				round property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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