The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 22

He asked the wife if he might stay there for the night, as he was tired wi’ a lang journey; and the wife said he might, but it was not a good place for him to be in, as it belanged to the Red Etin, who was a very terrible beast, wi’ three heads, that spared no living man he could get hold of.

Who acts: man, wife, journey, Red Etin, that · What happens: ask, stay, be, say, not be, belang · To what, where: lang journey, wife, good place, terrible beast, living man, hold · 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 (man, wife, journey, Red 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stay	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stay	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stay	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wi	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 wi	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wi	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wi	cop
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wi	amod
18	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	parataxis
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 wi	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 journey	det
21	lang	lang	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 journey	compound
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wife	det
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 might	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 place	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 place	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 place	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 place	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 place	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 place	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 place	amod
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	ccomp
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 place	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	42 in	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 in	cop
42	in	in	ADV	_	37 place	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 belanged	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 belanged	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 belanged	nsubj
46	belanged	belang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	50 Etin	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Etin	det
49	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Etin	flat
50	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 belanged	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 beast	punct
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 beast	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 beast	cop
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 beast	det
55	very	very	ADV	_	56 terrible	advmod
56	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 beast	amod
57	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Etin	appos
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 wi	punct
59	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 beast	conj
60	’	'	SYM	_	61 three	case
61	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 heads	nummod
62	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 wi	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 spared	punct
64	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 spared	nsubj
65	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 beast	conj
66	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	68 man	det
67	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 man	amod
68	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 spared	obj
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 get	nsubj
70	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 get	aux
71	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 man	acl:relcl
72	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 get	obj
73	of	of	ADP	_	72 hold	fixed
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man	a lang journey	the wife				tree rules
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	might	man			there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	man					as tired wi	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	past	journey	a good place				for man	tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive	journey not said here					in property	tree rules
7	belang	past	journey					to the Red Etin	tree rules
8	is a	past	the Red Etin	a terrible beast and wi and three heads					tree rules
9	spare	past	that	no living man					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Asset
10	get	could	man	hold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=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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