The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 23
So he treated her royally, and as time went on she had a son called Sigurd, a beautiful boy and very strong.
Who acts: King, maid · What happens: treat, go, have, call · To what, where: maid, son · 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 (King, maid), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 treated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 treated | nsubj |
| 3 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 treated | obj |
| 5 | royally | royally | ADV | _ | 3 treated | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 treated | conj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 son | acl |
| 17 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boy | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | amod |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sigurd | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strong | cc |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 strong | advmod |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | King | maid | royally property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | past | King not said here | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | maid | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a son not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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