The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 53
Then he threw a lock of wool into the river, and when it floated down against the sword it was cut into two pieces.
Who acts: Sigurd, lock, sword · What happens: throw, float down, cut · To what, where: lock, river, sword, two pieces
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, lock, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lock | det |
| 5 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wool | case |
| 7 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lock | nmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 floated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 floated | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 floated | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 floated | nsubj |
| 15 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 floated | advmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 sword | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cut | aux:pass |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sword | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cut | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Sigurd | a lock of wool | then | into the river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer lock=Theme into river=Result | ||
| 2 | float down | past | lock | the sword | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against sword=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | cut | past · passive | the sword not said here | lock | two pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into piece=Product |
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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