English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 19

He asked the wife if he might stay for the night, as he was tired with a long journey; and the wife said he might, but it was not a good place for him to be in, as it belonged to the Red Ettin, who was a very terrible beast, with three heads, that spared no living man it could get hold of.

Who acts: man, wife, journey, Red Ettin, that · What happens: ask, stay, be, say, not be, belong · To what, where: wife, good place, terrible beast, living man, hold · 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 (man, wife, journey, Red Ettin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stay	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stay	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 tired	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tired	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 journey	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 journey	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 journey	amod
20	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wife	det
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 might	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 place	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 place	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 place	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 place	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 place	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 place	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 place	nmod
38	to	to	PART	_	40 in	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 in	cop
40	in	in	ADV	_	35 place	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 belonged	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 belonged	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 belonged	nsubj
44	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 Ettin	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Ettin	det
47	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Ettin	flat
48	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 belonged	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 beast	punct
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 beast	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 beast	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 beast	det
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 terrible	advmod
54	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 beast	amod
55	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Ettin	appos
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 heads	punct
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 heads	case
58	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 heads	nummod
59	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 beast	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 spared	punct
61	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 spared	nsubj
62	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 beast	conj
63	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	65 man	det
64	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 man	compound
65	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 spared	obj
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 get	nsubj
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 get	aux
68	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 man	acl:relcl
69	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 get	obj
70	of	of	ADP	_	69 hold	fixed
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man		the wife			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	might	man			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	man				with a long journey; tired property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	past	journey	a good place			for man	tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive	journey not said here				in property	tree rules
7	belong	past	journey				to the Red Ettin	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	is a	past	the Red Ettin	a terrible beast and three heads				tree rules
9	spare	past	that	no living man				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Asset
10	get	could	journey	hold				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=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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