The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 115
“And the sword,” he said, looking fondly up to the place where it hung.
Who acts: Sigurd, sword · What happens: say, look, hang · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sword | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sword | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sword | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 hung | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hung | nsubj |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sigurd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Sigurd not said here | up the place; fondly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent up place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | sword | 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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