Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 34

So he went into the kitchen to see the host; he found him a weak old man turning the spit.

Who acts: Ivan, weak old man · What happens: go, see, find, turn · To what, where: kitchen, host, place, spit

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, weak old 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 host	det
10	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
19	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 man	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spit	det
21	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turning	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Ivan		the kitchen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
2	see	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	the host		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus
3	find	past	Ivan	place		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme man=Attribute
4	turn	gerund	a weak old man not said here	the spit		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spit=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: «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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