English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 18

And he went into the castle for shelter, and there he saw an old wife sitting beside the kitchen fire.

Who acts: man, old wife · What happens: go, see, sit · To what, where: castle, old wife, kitchen fire

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, old wife), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 shelter	case
8	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 saw	expl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wife	acl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fire	compound
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		the castle	for shelter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
2	see	past	man	a old wife	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a old wife not said here		the kitchen fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=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: «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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