The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 29

And when he had got him out he told him that if he could answer him three questions his life should be spared.

Who acts: monster, three questions · What happens: get out, tell, answer, spare · To what, where: man, three questions, life · 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 (monster, three questions), 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	_	9 told	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 answer	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 answer	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answer	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 answer	aux
15	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answer	obj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 questions	nummod
18	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 answer	obj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spared	nsubj:pass
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 spared	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 spared	aux:pass
23	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 questions	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	get out	past · perfect	monster	man		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	monster		man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	monster	three questions	man	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme question=Eventuality
4	spare	should · passive	three questions not said here	monster's life		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset

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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