The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 40
Then the person who had killed Otter went down and caught the Dwarf who owned all the treasure and took it from him.
Who acts: person, Dwarf · What happens: kill, go down, catch, own, take · To what, where: person, Dwarf, treasure
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 (person, Dwarf), 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 | 8 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dwarf | det |
| 13 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 owned | nsubj |
| 15 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 treasure | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 treasure | det |
| 18 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owned | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer otter=Result | |||||
| 2 | go down | past | the person | then | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | catch | past | the person not said here | the Dwarf | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 4 | own | past | the Dwarf | all treasure | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the person not said here | treasure | from Otter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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