The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 95

They played the whole day, and Sigurd taught Helga all sorts of games she had never even heard of.

Who acts: men, Sigurd, Helga · What happens: play, teach, not hear, sort · To what, where: sorts, Helga, games

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 (men, Sigurd, Helga), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taught	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taught	cc
8	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taught	nsubj
9	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 played	conj
10	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taught	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taught	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 games	case
14	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sorts	nmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 heard	advmod
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 games	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 heard	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	play	past	men = man			day	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	past	Sigurd	all sorts of games	Helga		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent helga=Recipient sort=Topic
3	not hear	past · perfect	Helga				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	sort			games			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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