English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 25

And when he had got him out, he told him that if he could answer him three questions his life should be spared.

Who acts: man, three questions · What happens: get out, tell, answer, spare · To what, where: monster, three questions, life · 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, three questions), 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	_	10 told	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 answer	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 answer	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answer	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	aux
16	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answer	obj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 questions	nummod
19	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 answer	obj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spared	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 spared	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 spared	aux:pass
24	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 questions	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	get out	past · perfect	man	monster		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	man		monster	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	man	three questions	monster	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme question=Eventuality
4	spare	should · passive	three questions not said here	man's life		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset

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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