The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 39
The other widow and her son heard of a’ that had happened frae a fairy, and the young man determined that he would also go upon his travels, and see if he could do anything to relieve his twa friends.
Who acts: other widow, ’, young man, man · What happens: hear, happen, determine, go, travel, see · To what, where: fairy, anything, twa friends
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 (other widow, ’, 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 widow | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 widow | amod |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 son | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 widow | conj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ’ | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ’ | det |
| 10 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ’ | acl:relcl |
| 14 | frae | frae | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 fairy | dep |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fairy | det |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 determined | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 determined | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 determined | nsubj |
| 22 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 determined | ccomp |
| 28 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 30 travels | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 travels | nmod:poss |
| 30 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 see | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 see | cc |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | conj |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 see | ccomp |
| 38 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 do | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 relieve | mark |
| 40 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 anything | acl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 friends | nmod:poss |
| 42 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 friends | compound |
| 43 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 relieve | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the other widow and other's son | of a ’ | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of '=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | a ’ | a fairy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | the young man | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | would | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | travel | present | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | the other widow and other's son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | do a condition, not said to happen | could | man | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | relieve | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's twa friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer |
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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