The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 10
And he bade her keep the broken pieces of the sword, to make a new sword for his son, and that blade should be called Gram.
Who acts: King · What happens: bade, keep, make, call · To what, where: sword, broken pieces, new sword, blade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bade | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | 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 bade | obj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pieces | det |
| 7 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pieces | amod |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keep | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sword | amod |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sword | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 called | cc |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 blade | det |
| 24 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 28 | Gram | Gram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | King | sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | King not said here | the broken pieces of the sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | King not said here | a new sword | for King's son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sword=Product for son=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | call | should · passive | that blade | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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