The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 26

Then the old man said, ‘Drive all the horses into the river, and choose the one that swims across.’

Who acts: old man, one · What happens: say, drive, choose, swim · To what, where: horses, river, one · 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 (old man, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Drive	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Drive	punct
8	Drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 horses	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Drive	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Drive	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 choose	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 choose	cc
17	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Drive	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 choose	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 swims	nsubj
21	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
22	across	across	ADV	_	21 swims	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Drive	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	infinitive		all horses	the river			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into river=Trajectory
3	choose	infinitive		the one				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	swim	present	the one				across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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