The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 24
He had a tutor to be with him, and once the tutor bade him go to the King and ask for a horse.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, be, go, ask · To what, where: tutor, tutor bade
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tutor | det |
| 4 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 him | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 him | cop |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tutor | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 11 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 14 bade | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bade | det |
| 13 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bade | compound |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ask | cc |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 horse | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | a tutor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tutor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | with boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present | King not said here | the tutor bade | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | King not said here | for a horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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