The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 104
There he saw a splendid horse, all ready saddled, and just above it hung a richly ornamented sword on the handle of which was engraved these words: “He who rides this horse and wears this sword will find happiness.”
Who acts: Sigurd, horse, sword · What happens: see, saddle, hang, ornament, engrave, ride · To what, where: splendid horse, ornamented sword, handle, words, horse, happiness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sigurd, horse, sword), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saddled | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ready | advmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saddled | parataxis |
| 10 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hung | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 hung | advmod |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 hung | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hung | nsubj |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 18 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 19 ornamented | advmod |
| 19 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sword | amod |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 handle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 handle | det |
| 23 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 engraved | obl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 engraved | aux:pass |
| 27 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 handle | acl:relcl |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 words | det |
| 29 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 engraved | obj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 rides | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 rides | punct |
| 32 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rides | nsubj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 rides | nsubj |
| 34 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 horse | det |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rides | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wears | cc |
| 38 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 rides | conj |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 sword | det |
| 40 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 find | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 find | aux |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wears | ccomp |
| 43 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 find | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Sigurd | a splendid horse | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | saddle | past | Sigurd not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hang | past | horse | a ornamented sword | the handle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme on handle=Destination | |||
| 4 | ornament | participle | richly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | engrave | past · passive | this words | of the handle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: word=Destination | ||||
| 6 | ride in a quote | present | Sigurd | this horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wear in a quote | present | Sigurd not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | find in a quote | future | this sword | happiness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Topic |
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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