English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 42
“The Red Ettin of Ireland Once lived in Ballygan, And stole King Malcolm's daughter, The king of Fair Scotland.
Who acts: Red Ettin · What happens: live, steal · To what, where: Ballygan, daughter
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 (Red 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ettin | det |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ettin | flat |
| 4 | Ettin | Ettin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ireland | case |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ettin | nmod |
| 7 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ballygan | case |
| 10 | Ballygan | Ballygan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stole | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stole | cc |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Malcolm | compound |
| 15 | Malcolm | Malcolm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Malcolm | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 king | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Scotland | case |
| 22 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Scotland | compound |
| 23 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 king | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | the Red Ettin of Ireland | Ballygan | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ballygan=Location | |||
| 2 | steal in a quote | past | the Red Ettin of Ireland not said here | King Malcolm's daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=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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