The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 84
So Sigurd gave her the little gold ring, and proposed that they should have a game.
Who acts: Sigurd, rings · What happens: give, propose, have · To what, where: little gold ring, girl, game
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, rings), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ring | amod |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | compound |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proposed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 proposed | cc |
| 11 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proposed | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 game | det |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sigurd | the little gold ring | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | propose | past | Sigurd not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | should | rings = ring | a game | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
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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