English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 49

The old woman who sat by the fire warned him of the terrible Ettin, and what had been the fate of his brother; but he was not to be daunted.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: sit, warn, be, not be · To what, where: Ettin, fate

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), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warned	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warned	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Ettin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ettin	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ettin	amod
14	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 warned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fate	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 fate	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fate	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fate	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fate	det
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warned	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brother	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fate	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 daunted	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 daunted	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 daunted	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 daunted	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 daunted	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 daunted	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 daunted	aux:pass
32	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 warned	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the old woman			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	warn speech: warn	past	the old woman		Ettin	of the terrible Ettin	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of ettin=Topic
3	is a	past · perfect		the fate		of Ettin's brother	tree rules
4	not is	past · passive		Ettin		daunt property	tree rules

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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