The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 25

‘Choose a horse for yourself,’ said the King; and Sigurd went to the wood, and there he met an old man with a white beard, and said, ‘Come! help me in horse-choosing.’

Who acts: King, Sigurd · What happens: choose, say, go, meet, come, help · To what, where: horse, wood, old man, me · 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, Sigurd), 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	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Choose	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 yourself	case
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Choose	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 met	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 met	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 met	expl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 met	nsubj
23	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 met	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 beard	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beard	det
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beard	amod
30	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
36	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Come	xcomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 help	obj
40	in	in	SCONJ	_	43 choosing	mark
41	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 choosing	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 horse	punct
43	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 help	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	infinitive		a horse			for yourself	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past	Sigurd			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
4	meet	past	King	a old man		there	with a white beard	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with beard=Instrument
5	say speech: assert	past	Sigurd not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	infinitive						tree rules
7	help	infinitive			me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
8	choose	gerund						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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