The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 46

Then the auld woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal that whould happen to him, and what he ought to do in a’ circumstances; and after that she vanished in an instant out o’ his sight.

Who acts: auld woman, great deal, ’, woman, man · What happens: be, tell, happen, do, circumstance, vanish out · To what, where: fairy, great deal, man, instant · 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 (auld woman, great deal, ’, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fairy	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fairy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fairy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deal	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deal	amod
15	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happen	nsubj
17	whould	whould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 deal	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 what	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 told	parataxis
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ought	nsubj
25	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ought	xcomp
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 circumstances	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ’	det
30	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 circumstances	nsubj
31	circumstances	circumstance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 do	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 vanished	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 vanished	cc
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 that	case
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 vanished	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 vanished	nsubj
37	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 instant	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 instant	det
40	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vanished	obl
41	out	out	ADP	_	37 vanished	compound:prt
42	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	45 sight	case
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 sight	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 sight	nmod:poss
45	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vanished	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the auld woman and a fairy	a fairy					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the auld woman and a fairy	a great deal	man		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient deal=Topic
3	happen		a great deal		man				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	to-infinitive	a great deal not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	circumstance	present	a ’						tree rules
6	vanish out	past	woman			a instant	after that	of man's sight	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sight		man						nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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