English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 5
“Ettin” is the English spelling of the word, as it is thus spelt in a passage of Beaumont and Fletcher (_Knight of Burning Pestle_, i. 1), which may refer to this very story, which, as we shall see, is quite as old as their time.
Who acts: Ettin, English spelling, we, Beaumont · What happens: be, spelt, refer, see, pass · To what, where: English spelling, Ettin, passage, story
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. 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 (Ettin, English spelling, we, Beaumont), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ettin | punct |
| 2 | Ettin | ettin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spelling | nsubj |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ettin | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spelling | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spelling | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spelling | amod |
| 7 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 old | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spelling | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spelt | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 spelt | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spelt | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spelt | aux:pass |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 spelt | advmod |
| 16 | spelt | spelt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spelling | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 passage | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 passage | det |
| 19 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spelt | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Beaumont | case |
| 21 | Beaumont | Beaumont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 passage | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fletcher | cc |
| 23 | Fletcher | Fletcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Beaumont | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Knight | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Knight | punct |
| 26 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Beaumont | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Burning | case |
| 28 | Burning | Burning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Knight | nmod |
| 29 | Pestle | Pestle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Burning | flat |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 spelt | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 1 | punct |
| 32 | i. | i. | SYM | _ | 33 1 | case |
| 33 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 spelling | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 1 | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 refer | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 refer | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 refer | aux |
| 38 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spelling | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 story | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 story | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 story | advmod |
| 42 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 refer | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 see | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 see | mark |
| 47 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 see | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 see | aux |
| 49 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 story | acl:relcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spelling | punct |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 old | cop |
| 52 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 54 old | advmod |
| 53 | as | as | ADV | _ | 54 old | advmod |
| 54 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 55 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 time | case |
| 56 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 time | nmod:poss |
| 57 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 old | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 54 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ettin | the English spelling | of the word | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spelt | present · passive | Ettin | a passage of Beaumont and Fletcher | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | refer | may | the English spelling | to this story | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to story=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | shall | we | this story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | time | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pass | Beaumont and Fletcher | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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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