The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 25

But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying:

Who acts: man, awful Etin, nae · What happens: not be, come in, hear, cry · To what, where: hidy hole, nae

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, awful Etin, nae), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 long	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 long	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 long	cop
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 hole	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod:poss
9	hidy	hidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hole	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hidy	punct
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Etin	det
14	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Etin	amod
15	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hole	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heard	cc
20	nae	nae	X	Foreign=Yes	28 heard	nsubj:pass
21	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 heard	advmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux:pass
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 heard	mark
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 heard	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux:pass
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 long	parataxis
29	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 heard	xcomp
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past · perfect	man		man's hidy hole	long property	tree rules
2	come in	past	the awful Etin	man's hidy hole not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=Theme
3	hear	past · passive		nae		soon property	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	nae not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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