The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 53

One came up roaring with open mouth to devour him, when he struck it with his wand, and laid it in an instant dead at his feet.

Who acts: One, man · What happens: come up, roar, devour, strike, lay · To what, where: man, mouth, instant

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 (One, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouth	amod
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roaring	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 devour	mark
9	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 roaring	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 devour	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 struck	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 struck	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 struck	nsubj
14	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 struck	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 wand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wand	nmod:poss
18	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 instant	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 instant	det
25	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 laid	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dead	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	One				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roar	gerund	One not said here			with open mouth	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mouth=Theme
3	devour	to-infinitive	One not said here	man			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	strike	past	man	mouth		with man's wand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with wand=Instrument
5	lay	past	One not said here	mouth	a instant		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in instant=Destination

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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