The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 18
‘A strange Queen to light the fires,’ thought the King.
Who acts: strange Queen · What happens: light, think · To what, where: fires, King · 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 (strange Queen), 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 | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 light | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 light | mark |
| 6 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fires | det |
| 8 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 light | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | to-infinitive | a strange Queen | the fires | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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