The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 18

This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he should meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.

Who acts: old man, Etin, beasts · What happens: tell, beware, meet, be, see · To what, where: Etin, any · 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 (old man, Etin, beasts), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beware	mark
8	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 beasts	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beasts	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beasts	amod
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beware	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 meet	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 meet	aux
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beware	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kind	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 kind	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kind	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kind	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 kind	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 kind	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 different	advmod
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kind	amod
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beware	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 any	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 kind	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 seen	advmod
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 any	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	this old man	Etin				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beware not said to happen	to-infinitive	this old man not said here				of the next beasts	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	meet	should	Etin					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	beasts = beast		any		of a different kind	tree rules
5	see	past · perfect	Etin			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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