English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 22

But he had not been long in his hiding-hole, before the awful Ettin came in; and no sooner was he in, than he was heard crying:

Who acts: man, awful Ettin · What happens: have, not be, come in, be, hear, cry · To what, where: hiding hole, man

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, awful 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 long	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 long	cop
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 hole	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod:poss
9	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hiding	punct
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ettin	det
15	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Ettin	amod
16	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 in	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 in	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 sooner	det
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 in	advmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 in	cop
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 in	nsubj
25	in	in	ADV	_	3 had	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 heard	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux:pass
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
31	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 heard	xcomp
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			man's hiding hole	long property	tree rules
3	come in	past	the awful Ettin				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	man			in, soon property	tree rules
5	hear	past · passive		man			tree rules
6	cry speech: express	gerund	man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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