The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 109
Then Gunnar remembered witchcraft that his mother had taught him, and by his magic he made Sigurd look exactly like himself, and he looked exactly like Gunnar.
Who acts: Gunnar, Sigurd · What happens: remember, teach, make, look · To what, where: witchcraft, Gunnar, Sigurd
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, Sigurd), 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 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taught | aux |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 witchcraft | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taught | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 magic | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 magic | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 18 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 22 himself | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 27 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 29 Gunnar | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 Gunnar | case |
| 29 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Gunnar | witchcraft | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent witchcraft=Theme | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | witchcraft | Gunnar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Gunnar | Sigurd | by Gunnar's magic | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | Sigurd not said here | like Gunnar | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look | past | Gunnar | like Gunnar | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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