The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 120
But he was brave, and he spoke not a word of it to the others to make them unhappy.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: be, not speak, make, word · To what, where: word, others · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 brave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | cop |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spoke | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spoke | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spoke | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sigurd | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | past | Sigurd | a word of word | to the others | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | others = other | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | word | word | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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