English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 61

She also took him down into a low room, and there stood a stone pillar, that he had only to touch with his wand, when his brother started into life.

Who acts: lady, man, brother · What happens: take down, stand, have, touch, start · To what, where: man, low room, stone pillar, life

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 (lady, man, brother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stood	advmod
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pillar	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pillar	compound
16	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 touch	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 touch	mark
23	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 wand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wand	nmod:poss
26	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 touch	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 started	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 started	advmod
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 started	nsubj
31	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touch	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 life	case
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 started	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take down	past	lady	man	a low room		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stand	past	lady not said here	a stone pillar	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pillar=Stimulus
3	have	past	man				tree rules
4	touch	to-infinitive	man not said here			with man's wand	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	start	past	man's brother		life		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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