The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 13
So this was done, and they hid in a wood, but there some strangers met them and carried them off in a ship to Denmark.
Who acts: clothes, strangers · What happens: do, hide, meet, carry off · To what, where: this, wood, clothes, ship
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 (clothes, strangers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | nsubj |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 met | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 met | expl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 strangers | det |
| 16 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 met | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carried | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carried | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ship | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ship | det |
| 25 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Denmark | case |
| 27 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ship | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | clothes | a wood | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | some strangers | clothes | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | carry off | past | some strangers not said here | clothes | a ship to Denmark | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in ship=Location |
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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