English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 46
When he came to the place where the monstrous beasts were standing, he did not stop nor run away, but went boldly through amongst them.
Who acts: Ettin, monstrous beasts · What happens: come, stand, not stop, run away, go · To what, where: place
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 (Ettin, monstrous beasts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 standing | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beasts | det |
| 9 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 standing | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 standing | aux |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stop | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stop | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 stop | advmod |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | parataxis |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 run | cc |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stop | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 26 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ettin | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the monstrous beasts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not stop | past · do-support | Ettin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run away | infinitive | Ettin not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | through beasts = beast; boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=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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