The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 59

And then he put the three questions to him, but the young man had been told everything by the good fairy, so he was able to answer all the questions.

Who acts: bade, good fairy, man · What happens: put, tell, be, answer · To what, where: three questions, heart, young man, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bade, good fairy, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 questions	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 questions	nummod
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 told	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 fairy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fairy	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fairy	amod
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 able	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 answer	mark
29	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 questions	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 questions	det
32	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 answer	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	bade	the three questions	heart	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the good fairy	the young man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient everything=Topic
3	is	past	man				able property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	man not said here	all questions				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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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