The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 17
‘I know because, when I was younger, I used to have to rise and light the fires, and still I waken at the same time.’
Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, use, have, rise, light · To what, where: fires
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | ccomp |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 younger | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 younger | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 younger | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 younger | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 younger | cop |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rise | mark |
| 16 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 light | cc |
| 18 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rise | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fires | det |
| 20 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 light | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waken | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 waken | cc |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 waken | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 waken | nsubj |
| 25 | waken | waken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past | I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rise | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | light | infinitive | I not said here | the fires | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 7 | waken | present | I | still; time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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