The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 4
Once upon a time there was a King in the North who had won many wars, but now he was old.
Who acts: King · What happens: win, be · To what, where: many wars
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 (King), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 won | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 won | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 North | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 North | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 won | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 won | aux |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wars | amod |
| 16 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 won | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 old | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 old | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 old | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 old | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 old | cop |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 won | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect | a King in the North | many wars | once property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | King | now | old 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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