The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 1

After the wedding was over he soon regained his good spirits, and used to ride out hunting as in old days; but Sigurd, who was very fond of his stepmother, always stayed at home with her.

Who acts: he, Sigurd · What happens: be, use, ride out, hunt, stay · To what, where: home

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Sigurd), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 wedding	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regained	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 regained	cop
5	over	over	SCONJ	_	8 regained	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 regained	nsubj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 regained	advmod
8	regained	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 spirits	nmod:poss
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirits	amod
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 regained	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 regained	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 ride	mark
16	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 ride	compound:prt
18	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ride	xcomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunting	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 Sigurd	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 Sigurd	cc
25	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 regained	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fond	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fond	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fond	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 fond	advmod
30	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Sigurd	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 stepmother	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 stepmother	nmod:poss
33	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fond	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stayed	punct
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 stayed	advmod
36	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 fond	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 home	case
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stayed	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 home	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 regained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		after the wedding	Sigurd obl; regain, soon property	tree rules
2	use	past	he not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ride out	to-infinitive	he not said here				tree rules
4	hunt	gerund	he not said here		day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Sigurd			of Sigurd's stepmother; fond property	tree rules
6	stay	participle	Sigurd not said here	home with stepmother		always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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