English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 7

Then he took his brother aside, and gave him a knife to keep till he should come back, desiring him to look at it every morning, and as long as it continued to be clear, then he might be sure that the owner of it was well; but if it grew dim and rusty, then for certain some ill had befallen him.

Who acts: man, knife, owner, ill · What happens: take, give, keep, come back, desire, look · To what, where: brother, knife, man

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 (man, knife, owner, ill), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 knife	det
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	advcl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 keep	ccomp
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 desiring	punct
21	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 come	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 desiring	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 desiring	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 morning	det
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 continued	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 continued	cc
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 continued	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 continued	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 continued	nsubj
35	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	38 clear	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 clear	cop
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 continued	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sure	punct
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 sure	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sure	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 sure	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 sure	cop
44	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 continued	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 well	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 owner	det
47	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 well	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 owner	nmod
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 well	cop
51	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 sure	ccomp
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 grew	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 grew	cc
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 grew	mark
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 grew	nsubj
56	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
57	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 grew	xcomp
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 rusty	cc
59	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 dim	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 certain	punct
61	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 certain	advmod
62	for	for	ADP	_	63 certain	case
63	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 grew	conj
64	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	65 ill	det
65	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 befallen	nsubj
66	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 befallen	aux
67	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 certain	ccomp
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 befallen	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man		man's brother	then	aside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination
2	give	past	man not said here	a knife	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient knife=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	man not said here					tree rules
4	come back	should	man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	desire	gerund	man not said here	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
6	look	to-infinitive	man not said here			morning	at knife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
7	continue	past	knife				long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	knife not said here				clear property	tree rules
9	is	might	man			then	sure property	tree rules
10	is	past	the owner of knife				well property	tree rules
11	grow a condition, not said to happen	past	owner				dim property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	befall	past · perfect	some ill	man				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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