The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 33

The lad not being able to answer one of these questions, the Red Etin took a mace and knocked him on the head, and turned him into a pillar of stone.

Who acts: lad · What happens: not be, answer, take, knock, turn · To what, where: one, mace, Etin, head, pillar

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 (lad), 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	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 able	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lad	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 answer	mark
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 answer	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 questions	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 questions	det
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lad	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Etin	det
14	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Etin	flat
15	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mace	det
18	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knocked	cc
20	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knocked	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knocked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turned	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 turned	cc
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turned	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 pillar	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pillar	det
31	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 stone	case
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pillar	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	gerund	the lad not said here			able property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	one of this questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
3	take	past	the lad	a mace			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme
4	knock	past	the lad not said here	Etin	the head		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on head=Destination
5	turn	past	the lad not said here	Etin	a pillar of stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into pillar=Trajectory

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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