The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 58
He quickly espied the young man, and bade him come forth on the floor.
Who acts: heart, bade · What happens: espy, come · To what, where: young man, floor
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 (heart, bade), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 espied | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 espied | advmod |
| 3 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 espied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 espied | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 espied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | espy | past | heart | the young man | quickly property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | present | bade | the floor | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=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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