The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 29
For Sleipnir was the horse of Odin, the God of the North, and was as swift as the wind.
What happens: be · To what, where: horse
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 Sleipnir | case |
| 2 | Sleipnir | Sleipnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Odin | case |
| 7 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 God | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 God | det |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Odin | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 North | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 North | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 God | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swift | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swift | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swift | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 swift | advmod |
| 18 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swift | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the horse | for Sleipnir; of Odin and the God of the North | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | as the wind; swift property | tree rules |
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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