The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 28
Sigurd chose him: his name was Grani, and he came of Sleipnir’s breed, and was the best horse in the world.
Who acts: Sigurd, name · What happens: choose, be, come, name · To what, where: horse, Grani, best horse, world
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 (Sigurd, name), 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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chose | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grani | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Grani | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Grani | cop |
| 8 | Grani | Grani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chose | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 breed | case |
| 14 | Sleipnir | Sleipnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 breed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sleipnir | case |
| 16 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horse | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 horse | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 horse | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horse | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Sigurd | horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Sigurd's name | Grani | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Sigurd | of Sleipnir's breed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of breed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the best horse | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Sigurd | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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