English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 40

Then the old woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal that would happen to him, and what he ought to do in all circumstances; and after that she vanished in an instant out of his sight.

Who acts: old woman, great deal, water, woman · What happens: be, tell, happen, do, vanish, sight · To what, where: fairy, great deal, water, circumstances, instant · 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 (old woman, great deal, water, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1205): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fairy	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fairy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fairy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fairy	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deal	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deal	amod
15	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 deal	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 do	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
25	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 deal	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 circumstances	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 circumstances	det
30	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 vanished	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 vanished	cc
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 that	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 vanished	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 vanished	nsubj
36	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 instant	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 instant	det
39	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 vanished	obl
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 sight	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	40 out	fixed
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 sight	nmod:poss
43	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 vanished	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old woman	a fairy					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman	a great deal	water		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient deal=Topic
3	happen	would	a great deal		water				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	ought	water	a great deal		all circumstances			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	vanish	past	woman			a instant	after that	out water's sight	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sight		water						nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/40/