The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 105
At the sight of the horse Sigurd was so filled with wonder that he was not able to speak, but at last he gasped out: “Oh, do let me mount him and ride him round the house!
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: fill, not be, speak, gasp out, do, let · To what, where: sight, last, Sigurd, house, horse · 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 7 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | appos |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 filled | advmod |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wonder | case |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 able | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 filled | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 speak | mark |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gasped | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 gasped | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gasped | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gasped | nsubj |
| 25 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 gasped | compound:prt |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 do | punct |
| 29 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 31 do | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Oh | punct |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | reparandum |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | parataxis |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 mount | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ride | cc |
| 37 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 let | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ride | obj |
| 39 | round | round | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 house | det |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ride | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the sight of the horse | with wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Sigurd | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gasp out | past | Sigurd | last | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sigurd | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mount in a quote | infinitive | Sigurd not said here | Sigurd | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | ride in a quote | infinitive | Sigurd | the house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme round house=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | sight | the horse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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