The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 21
‘A rich house where the maids wore gold,’ said the King.
Who acts: rich house, King · What happens: wear, say · To what, where: gold · 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 (rich house, King), 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 | _ | 8 wore | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 wore | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maids | det |
| 7 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wore | nsubj |
| 8 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wore | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wore | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 wore | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | a rich house | gold | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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