The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 3
But Sigurd said he would much rather stay at home, and the next day when the king rode off Sigurd refused to accompany him.
Who acts: Sigurd, king · What happens: say, stay, ride off, refuse, not accompany · To what, where: home, Sigurd · 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, king), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 rather | advmod |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rode | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 refused | nsubj |
| 22 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rode | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 accompany | mark |
| 24 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 refused | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accompany | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay | would | Sigurd | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | ride off | past | the king | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | refuse | past | Sigurd | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not accompany | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | Sigurd | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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