The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 52

When he came to the place where the monstrous beasts were standing, he did not stop nor run away, but went boldly through among them.

Who acts: man, monstrous beasts · What happens: come, stand, not stop, run away, go · To what, where: place

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 (man, monstrous beasts), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 standing	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beasts	det
9	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beasts	amod
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 standing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 standing	aux
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 place	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stop	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stop	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 stop	advmod
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	parataxis
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 run	cc
19	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 run	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 through	advmod
25	through	through	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
26	among	among	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	man	the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	stand	past · progressive	the monstrous beasts			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	past · do-support	man			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	run away	infinitive	man not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past			among beasts = beast; through property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among they=Location

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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