English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 21
He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the morning, without meeting with the beasts, and so escape.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, put over, get away, meet, escape
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meeting | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 meeting | mark |
| 21 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 get | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 beasts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beasts | det |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 meeting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 escape | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 escape | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 escape | advmod |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put over a condition, not said to happen | could | man | night | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get away | might | man | morning | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | meet | gerund | man not said here | with the beasts | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beast=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | escape | infinitive | man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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