The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 81
Again Sigurd heard her, and begged Lineik to come to her help, and Lineik, feeling sorry for her distress, wove and embroidered the second dress as she had done the first, mixing gold thread and precious stones till you could hardly see the red of the stuff.
Who acts: Sigurd, Laufer, you · What happens: hear, beg, come, feel, weave, embroider · To what, where: Laufer, Lineik, help, second dress, first, gold thread
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, Laufer, you), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begged | cc |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lineik | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Lineik | cc |
| 16 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feeling | punct |
| 18 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feeling | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 distress | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 distress | nmod:poss |
| 22 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feeling | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wove | punct |
| 24 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 embroidered | cc |
| 26 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wove | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dress | det |
| 28 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 dress | amod |
| 29 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 embroidered | obj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 done | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 embroidered | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 first | det |
| 35 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 done | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mixing | punct |
| 37 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 embroidered | advcl |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thread | compound |
| 39 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mixing | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 stones | cc |
| 41 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 stones | amod |
| 42 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 thread | conj |
| 43 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 47 see | mark |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 see | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 see | aux |
| 46 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 47 see | advmod |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 mixing | advcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 red | det |
| 49 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 see | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 stuff | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 stuff | det |
| 52 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 red | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Sigurd | Laufer | again | Lineik obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Sigurd not said here | Lineik | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lineik=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | Laufer's help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | Sigurd not said here | for Laufer's distress; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | weave | past | Sigurd not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | embroider | past | Sigurd not said here | the second dress | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product | ||||
| 7 | do | past · perfect | Laufer | the first | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | mix | gerund | Sigurd not said here | gold thread and precious stones | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | ||||
| 9 | see | could | you | the red of the stuff | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus | |||
| 10 | help | Laufer | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | distress | Laufer | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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