The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 5
Yet he took a new wife, and then another Prince, who wanted to have married her, came up against him with a great army.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: take, want, marry, come up · To what, where: new wife, wife
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, Prince), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wanted | advmod |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 married | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 married | aux |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 married | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 army | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 army | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 army | amod |
| 27 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | a new wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | want | past | another Prince | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | another Prince not said here | wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | King not said here | against King; with a great army | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=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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