The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 108
Then Gunnar tried Sigurd’s horse Grani, but he would not move with Gunnar on his back.
Who acts: Gunnar · What happens: try, not move · To what, where: horse, back
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 (Gunnar), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sigurd | case |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | obj |
| 7 | Grani | Grani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 move | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 move | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Gunnar | case |
| 15 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 move | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 move | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Gunnar | Sigurd's horse | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not move | would | Gunnar | Gunnar's back | with Gunnar | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
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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