The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 55

The auld woman that sat by the fire warned him of the terrible Etin, and what had been the fate of the twa brithers; but he was not to be daunted.

Who acts: auld woman · What happens: sit, warn, be, not be · To what, where: man, fate

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), 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 woman	det
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warned	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warned	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Etin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Etin	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Etin	amod
14	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 warned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fate	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 fate	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fate	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fate	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fate	det
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warned	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 brithers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brithers	det
24	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brithers	compound
25	brithers	brither	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fate	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 daunted	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 daunted	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 daunted	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 daunted	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 daunted	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 daunted	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 daunted	aux:pass
33	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 warned	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the auld woman			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	warn speech: warn	past	the auld woman		man	of the terrible Etin	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of etin=Topic
3	is a	past · perfect		the fate		of the twa brithers	tree rules
4	not is	past · passive		man		daunt property	tree rules

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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