The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 102
Her name was Gudrun, and her mother was a witch.
Who acts: name, mother, curse · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Gudrun, witch
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 (name, mother, curse), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gudrun | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Gudrun | cop |
| 4 | Gudrun | Gudrun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 witch | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 witch | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 witch | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 witch | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gudrun | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gudrun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | curse's name | Gudrun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | curse's mother | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | curse | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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