The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 5
Having said all this she allowed Sigurd to ride “just once” round the house, taking the sword and other things with him.
Who acts: enemy, this · What happens: have, say, allow, ride, take · To what, where: this, Sigurd, house, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (enemy, this), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 this | csubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 this | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 allowed | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 allowed | nsubj |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 once | punct |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 once | advmod |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 ride | advmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 once | punct |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ride | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 things | cc |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sword | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | allow | past | enemy | this | Sigurd | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer sigurd=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | ride not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | the house | once property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round house=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take | gerund | this not said here | the sword and other things | with Sigurd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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