The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 38

Then someone came by, and threw a stone at the otter and killed it, and flayed off the skin, and took it to the house of Otter’s father.

Who acts: someone · What happens: come by, throw, kill, flay, take · To what, where: stone, house

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 (someone), 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	3 came	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 otter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 otter	det
12	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 killed	cc
14	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threw	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 killed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flayed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flayed	cc
18	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skin	det
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flayed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 father	case
30	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 father	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Otter	case
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 house	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come by	past	someone			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past		a stone			at the otter	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at otter=Destination
3	kill	past		stone				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	flay	past	someone not said here				off the skin	tree rules
5	take	past	someone not said here	stone	the house of Otter's father			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to house=Destination

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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