The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 2
They have carved on the rocks pictures of some of the things that happen in the tale, and those carvings may still be seen.
Who acts: Danes, things · What happens: carve, happen, see · To what, where: rocks pictures, tale, carvings
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 (Danes, things), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | aux |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pictures | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rocks | det |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pictures | compound |
| 7 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carved | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 pictures | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tale | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tale | det |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seen | cc |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 carvings | det |
| 21 | carvings | carving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 seen | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carved | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | present · perfect | Danes = dane | rocks pictures of some | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on picture=Destination | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | the things | the tale | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | may · passive | that carvings | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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