The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 114
But, instead of mounting Gullfaxi, as she expected, Sigurd stood still.
Who acts: Helga, Sigurd · What happens: mount, expect, stand · To what, where: Gullfaxi
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 (Helga, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 mounting | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 mounting | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Gullfaxi | Gullfaxi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mounting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expected | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 expected | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 expected | nsubj |
| 10 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounting | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 expected | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | gerund | Gullfaxi | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gullfaxi=Patient | |||||
| 2 | expect | past | Helga | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Sigurd | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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