English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 16
So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadful beasts, with two heads, and on every head four horns.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: go on, see · To what, where: head horns, multitude
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 (young man, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 multitude | det |
| 17 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beasts | case |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 dreadful | advmod |
| 20 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beasts | amod |
| 21 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 multitude | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heads | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 heads | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 heads | nummod |
| 25 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 horns | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 horns | cc |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horns | compound |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 head | flat |
| 32 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the young man | head horns | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | a multitude of dreadful beasts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus |
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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