The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 23

The young man would have gone away, but he was afraid of the beasts on the outside of the castle; so he beseeched the old woman to conceal him as well as she could, and not to tell the Etin that he was there.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: go away, be, beseeche, conceal, not tell · To what, where: old woman, man, Etin · 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 (young man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 afraid	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 beasts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beasts	det
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 afraid	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 outside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 outside	det
18	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beasts	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 castle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 outside	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 beseeched	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 beseeched	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beseeched	nsubj
25	beseeched	beseeche	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beseeched	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 conceal	mark
30	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 beseeched	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 conceal	obj
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	30 conceal	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 could	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 could	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 conceal	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tell	cc
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 tell	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 tell	mark
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Etin	det
43	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tell	obj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 there	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 there	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 there	cop
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 tell	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go away	would · perfect	the young man			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	man			of the beasts on the outside of the castle; afraid property	tree rules
3	beseeche	past	man	the old woman			tree rules
4	conceal	to-infinitive	man not said here	man			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			the Etin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent etin=Recipient
6	is	past	man			there 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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