The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 41
Only one ring was left, which the Dwarf wore, and even that was taken from him.
Who acts: Dwarf · What happens: leave, wear, take · To what, where: one ring, that
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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ring | nummod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wore | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wore | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dwarf | det |
| 9 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taken | cc |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 taken | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 left | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | one ring | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wear | past | the Dwarf | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | |||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | that | from dwarf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=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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