The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 37
And one day Otter had been fishing there, and had killed a salmon and eaten it, and was sleeping, like an otter, on a stone.
Who acts: Otter · What happens: fish, kill, eat, sleep · To what, where: salmon, stone
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 (Otter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fishing | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fishing | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fishing | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fishing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fishing | aux |
| 7 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 fishing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fishing | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 salmon | det |
| 14 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eaten | cc |
| 16 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 killed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eaten | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sleeping | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sleeping | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sleeping | aux |
| 21 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fishing | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 otter | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 otter | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 otter | det |
| 25 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sleeping | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stone | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 stone | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stone | det |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sleeping | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | past · perfect · progressive | Otter | there | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect | Otter not said here | a salmon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | Otter not said here | salmon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past · progressive | Otter not said here | a stone | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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