The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 36
Now there was at that time a dwarf called Andvari, who lived in a pool beneath a waterfall, and there he had hidden a great hoard of gold.
Who acts: dwarf, Sigurd · What happens: be, call, live, hide, hoard · To what, where: dwarf, pool, great hoard, gold · 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 (dwarf, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dwarf | acl |
| 10 | Andvari | Andvari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pool | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pool | det |
| 16 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 waterfall | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 waterfall | det |
| 19 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pool | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hidden | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hidden | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 hidden | expl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hidden | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hidden | aux |
| 25 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lived | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hoard | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hoard | amod |
| 28 | hoard | hoard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hidden | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hoard | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | now; time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a dwarf not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | a dwarf | a pool beneath a waterfall | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past · perfect | Sigurd | a great hoard of gold | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoard=Patient | |||
| 5 | hoard | gold | nom hoard «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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