The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 50

Like Julian the Roman, He’s one that fears no man, But now I fear his end is near, And destiny at hand; And you’re to be, I plainly see, The heir of all his land.”

Who acts: Etin, one, I, you · What happens: be, fear, see · To what, where: one, man, end, heir

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 (Etin, one, I, you), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	2 Julian	case
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fears	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Roman	det
4	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Julian	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
7	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fears	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fears	nsubj
10	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fears	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fear	punct
14	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 fear	cc
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fear	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fear	nsubj
17	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fears	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 end	nmod:poss
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fear	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 near	cop
21	near	near	ADV	_	17 fear	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 destiny	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 destiny	cc
24	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fears	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 hand	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 destiny	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 ’re	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 ’re	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 ’re	nsubj
30	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fears	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 be	mark
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ’re	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
35	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	36 see	advmod
36	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fears	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 heir	punct
38	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 heir	det
39	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 land	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 land	det:predet
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 land	nmod:poss
43	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 heir	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Etin	one			tree rules
2	fear	present	one	no man		like Julian; destiny at hand obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	fear	present	I	Etin's end	now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus
4	is	present	I not said here			near property	tree rules
5	does	present	you				tree rules
6	be	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	present	I	the heir of Etin's land		plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heir=Stimulus

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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