The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 19

So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadfu’ beasts, ilk ane o’ them wi’ twa heads, and on every head four horns.

Who acts: young man, man, beasts · What happens: go on, see, head · To what, where: head horns, multitude beasts

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 (young man, man, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 multitude	det
17	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beasts	compound
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dreadfu	case
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 dreadfu	advmod
20	dreadfu	dreadfu	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 multitude	nmod
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 dreadfu	punct
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ane	punct
24	ilk	ilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ane	compound
25	ane	ane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beasts	conj
26	o	o	ADV	_	32 heads	advmod
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 heads	punct
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heads	nsubj
29	wi	wi	X	_	32 heads	compound
30	’	's	PART	_	29 wi	case
31	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heads	compound
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 beasts	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 horns	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 horns	cc
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 head	det
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 horns	compound
38	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 head	flat
39	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go on	past	the young man	head horns	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	man	multitude beasts and ilk ane and wi twa heads	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
3	head		beasts = beast		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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