The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 21

And he gaed into the castle for shelter, and there he saw an auld wife sitting beside the kitchen fire.

Who acts: man, auld wife · What happens: ga, see, sit · To what, where: castle, auld wife, kitchen fire

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, auld wife), 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	into	into	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 shelter	case
8	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 saw	expl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
15	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wife	acl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fire	compound
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ga	past	man		the castle	for shelter	tree rules
2	see	past	man	a auld wife	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a auld wife not said here		the kitchen fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location

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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