The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 13
It’s said there’s ane predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn And lang may it be so.”
Who acts: ane, man, wand · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wand, mortal foe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ane, man, wand), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 predestinate | cop |
| 6 | ane | ane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 predestinate | nsubj |
| 7 | predestinate | predestinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | To | to | PART | _ | 12 foe | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 foe | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 foe | amod |
| 12 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 predestinate | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 unborn | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 unborn | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unborn | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 unborn | cop |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 unborn | advmod |
| 19 | unborn | unborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lang | cc |
| 21 | lang | lang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unborn | conj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 so | aux |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 so | nsubj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 so | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | wand | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ane | predestinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | ane not said here | Etin's mortal foe | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that man | yet | unborn property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | may | wand | so property | 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: «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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