English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 54

So when the first head asked, “What's the thing without an end?” he said: “A bowl.”

Who acts: first head, man · What happens: ask, be, say · To what, where: thing · 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 (first head, 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 asked	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 asked	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 head	amod
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 thing	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	ccomp
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 bowl	punct
22	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bowl	det
23	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 bowl	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 bowl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the first head			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the thing	without a end	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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