English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 53

And then he put the three questions to him; but the young man had been told everything by the good fairy, so he was able to answer all the questions.

Who acts: bade, good fairy, man · What happens: put, tell, be, answer · To what, where: three questions, heart, young man, questions · 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 (bade, good fairy, man), 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	_	4 put	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 questions	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 questions	nummod
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 told	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 fairy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fairy	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fairy	amod
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 able	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 answer	mark
29	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 questions	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 questions	det
32	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 answer	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	bade	the three questions	heart	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the good fairy	the young man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient everything=Topic
3	is	past	man				able property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	man not said here	all questions				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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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