The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 14
Sigurd, however, replied as before, that he would much rather stay at home.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: reply, stay · To what, where: Sigurd, 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 (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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sigurd | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | aux |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 rather | advmod |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | Sigurd | before, however property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | would | Sigurd | home | 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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