English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 15

This shepherd also told him to beware of the beasts he should next meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.

Who acts: shepherd, man, beasts · What happens: tell, beware, meet, be, see · To what, where: man, beasts, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, man, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beware	mark
7	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 beasts	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beasts	det
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beware	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meet	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 meet	aux
13	next	next	ADV	_	14 meet	advmod
14	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 beasts	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 kind	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kind	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 kind	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kind	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 different	advmod
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kind	amod
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beware	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 any	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 kind	nmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 any	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	this shepherd		man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beware not said to happen	to-infinitive	this shepherd not said here					of the beasts	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	meet	should	man	the beasts not said here				next property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent
4	is	past	beasts = beast			any		of a different kind	tree rules
5	see	past · perfect	man				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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