English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 24
The monster soon found the poor young man, and pulled him from his hole.
Who acts: monster · What happens: find, pull · To what, where: poor young man, man, hole
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 (monster), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monster | det |
| 2 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pulled | cc |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pulled | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hole | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the monster | the poor young man | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | pull | past | the monster not said here | man | man's hole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from hole=Initial_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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