Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 120

It fell beside his tumbler, and when he looked at it what was it but the eye of a sheep.

Who acts: o'clock, master · What happens: fall, look, be · To what, where: tumbler, o'clock

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 (o'clock, master), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 tumbler	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tumbler	nmod:poss
5	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 looked	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	obl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 looked	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 eye	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sheep	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sheep	det
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eye	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past	o'clock		master's tumbler	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside tumbler=Location
2	look	past	master		o'clock	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute
3	is a	past		o'clock		tree rules

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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