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title: This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he shou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he should meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen. Who acts: old man, Etin, beasts. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 18

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This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he should meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.

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**Who acts:** old man, Etin, beasts · **What happens:** tell, beware, meet, be, see · **To what, where:** Etin, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Etin, beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:56:18
# text = This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he should meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | this old man |  | Etin |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beware** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the next beasts | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **meet** | should | Etin |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | beasts *= beast* |  |  | any |  | of a different kind | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | Etin |  |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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