The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 141
But Sigurd woke, and caught the sword Gram into his hand, and threw it at the man as he fled, and the sword cut him in twain.
Who acts: Sigurd, sword · What happens: wake, catch, throw, flee, cut · To what, where: sword, hand, Sigurd, twain
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, sword), 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 | _ | 3 woke | cc |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caught | cc |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | Gram | Gram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | appos |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 fled | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fled | nsubj |
| 22 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 threw | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cut | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cut | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cut | nsubj |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 cut | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 twain | case |
| 30 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cut | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Sigurd | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | Sigurd not said here | the sword | Sigurd's hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | past | Sigurd not said here | hand | at the man | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at man=Destination | |||
| 4 | flee | past | Sigurd | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cut | past | the sword | Sigurd | twain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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