The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 10

And he gaed up to the shepherd and asked him wha the sheep belanged to; and the man answered:

Who acts: man, wha · What happens: ga up, ask, belang, answer · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wha), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gaed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gaed	nsubj
3	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gaed	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shepherd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	wha	wha	X	Foreign=Yes	14 belanged	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheep	det
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 belanged	nsubj
14	belanged	belang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 belanged	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ga up	past	man		to the shepherd	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here	man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	belang	past	wha			tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	the man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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