The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 17
Wild with anger Prince Sigurd sprang from his horse and, sword in hand, fell on the men and killed them all.
Who acts: sword · What happens: spring, fall, kill · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sprang | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wild | obl |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sigurd | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 anger | appos |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sword | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | from Sigurd's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | sword in hand | on the men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on man=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | sword in hand not said here | sword | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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