English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 17
And he was sore frightened, and ran away from them as fast as he could; and glad was he when he came to a castle that stood on a hillock, with the door standing wide open to the wall.
Who acts: man, castle, door · What happens: be, frighten, run away, come, stand · To what, where: man, castle, hillock
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 (man, castle, door), 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 sore | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sore | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | cop |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sore | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ran | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glad | cc |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sore | conj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 he | cop |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 came | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 castle | acl:relcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 hillock | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hillock | det |
| 32 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 door | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 37 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 door | acl |
| 38 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 39 open | advmod |
| 39 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 standing | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 wall | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wall | det |
| 42 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 open | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | run away | past | man not said here | from beasts = beast; away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | be | man | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | man | a castle | with the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | stand | past | a castle | a hillock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hillock=Location | ||||
| 8 | stand | gerund | the door not said here | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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