The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 52
Sigurd tried this blade on the lump of iron, and it did not break, but split the iron in two.
Who acts: Sigurd, blade · What happens: try, not break, split · To what, where: blade, lump, iron, two
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 (Sigurd, blade), 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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 blade | det |
| 4 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lump | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lump | det |
| 7 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 iron | case |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lump | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 break | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 break | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 break | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 break | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 break | advmod |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 split | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 split | cc |
| 18 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 iron | det |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 split | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 split | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Sigurd | this blade | the lump of iron | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not break | past · do-support | blade | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | split | past | the iron | two | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=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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