The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 24
He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the morning without meeting wi’ the beasts, and so escape.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, put over, get away, meet, escape · To what, where: wi
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 meeting | mark |
| 20 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 get | advcl |
| 21 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meeting | obj |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 meeting | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beasts | det |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meeting | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 escape | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 escape | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 escape | advmod |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put over a condition, not said to happen | could | man | night | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get away | might | man | morning | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | meet | gerund | man not said here | wi | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape | infinitive | man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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