The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 48
So Regin made a sword, and Sigurd tried it with a blow on a lump of iron, and the sword broke.
Who acts: Regin, Sigurd, sword · What happens: make, try, break · To what, where: sword, dragon
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 (Regin, Sigurd, sword), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 8 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tried | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blow | det |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 lump | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lump | det |
| 16 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 iron | case |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lump | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broke | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sword | det |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Regin | a sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Product | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Sigurd | dragon | with a blow on a lump of iron | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with blow=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | past | the sword | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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