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The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 55

But before he went against the Dragon he led an army to fight the men who had killed his father, and he slew their King, and took all his wealth, and went home.

Who acts: Sigurd, army · What happens: go, lead, fight, kill, slay, take · To what, where: army, men, King, wealth

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, army), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblnsubjdetobjmarkxcompdetobjnsubj:passauxacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctccnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctccparataxisdet:predetnmod:possobjpunctccconjadvmodpunctrootButCCONJbeforeSCONJhePRONwentVERBagainstADPtheDETDragonPROPNhePRONledVERBanDETarmyNOUNtoPARTfightVERBtheDETmenNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXkilledVERBhisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONslewVERBtheirPRONKingPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtookVERBallDEThisPRONwealthNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBhomeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_9 ledcc
2beforebeforeSCONJ_4 wentmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ledadvcl
5againstagainstADP_7 Dragoncase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Dragondet
7DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 lednsubj
9ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 armydet
11armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing9 ledobj
12totoPART_13 fightmark
13fightfightVERBVerbForm=Inf9 ledxcomp
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 mendet
15menmanNOUNNumber=Plur13 fightobj
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 killednsubj:pass
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 killedaux
18killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 menacl:relcl
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 fathernmod:poss
20fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing18 killedobj
21,,PUNCT_24 slewpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 slewcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 slewnsubj
24slewslayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ledconj
25theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 Kingnmod:poss
26KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 slewobj
27,,PUNCT_29 tookpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 tookcc
29tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ledparataxis
30allallDETPronType=Tot32 wealthdet:predet
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 wealthnmod:poss
32wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing29 tookobj
33,,PUNCT_35 wentpunct
34andandCCONJ_35 wentcc
35wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 tookconj
36homehomeADV_35 wentadvmod
37..PUNCT_9 ledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastSigurdagainst the Dragonvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against dragon=Location
2leadpastSigurda armyvn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent army=Patient clause=Result
3fightto-infinitivea army not said herethe menvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
4killpast · perfect · passivethe menvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer father=Result
5slaypastSigurdmen's Kingvn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
6takepastSigurd's wealthvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
7gopasthome propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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