The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 12

He beats her, he binds her, He lays her on a band; And every day he dings her With a bright silver wand Like Julian the Roman He’s one that fears no man.

Who acts: Etin · What happens: beat, bind, lay, ding, be, fear · To what, where: Malcolm, band, one, 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 (Etin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beats	nsubj
2	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beats	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 binds	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 binds	nsubj
6	binds	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beats	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 binds	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lays	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lays	nsubj
10	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 binds	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lays	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 band	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 band	det
14	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lays	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dings	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 dings	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dings	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dings	nsubj
20	dings	ding	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beats	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dings	obj
22	With	with	ADP	_	26 wand	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wand	det
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wand	amod
25	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wand	compound
26	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dings	obl
27	Like	like	ADP	_	28 Julian	case
28	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wand	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Roman	det
30	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Julian	appos
31	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 one	nsubj
32	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 one	cop
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 wand	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 fears	nsubj
35	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 one	acl:relcl
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fears	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	Etin	Malcolm				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
2	bind	present	Etin	Malcolm				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	lay	present	Etin	Malcolm	a band			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on band=Destination
4	ding	present	Etin	Malcolm		day	with a bright silver wand like Julian	tree rules
5	is a	present	Etin	one				tree rules
6	fear	present		no man				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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: «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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