The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 81
With these words they took leave of each other, and Sigurd wandered on till he reached the lake, where he found the little girl playing with a boat, just as he had been told.
Who acts: rings, Sigurd, little girl · What happens: take, wander, reach, find, play, tell · To what, where: leave, lake, little girl, 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 (rings, Sigurd, little girl), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 leave | nmod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wandered | cc |
| 12 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wandered | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lake | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girl | amod |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 27 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 girl | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 boat | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 boat | det |
| 30 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 playing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 told | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 told | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 told | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 told | aux:pass |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 playing | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | rings = ring | leave of each | with this words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | wander | past | Sigurd | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | Sigurd | the lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Sigurd | the little girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 5 | play | gerund | the little girl not said here | with a boat | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with boat=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Sigurd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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