The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 56
When he had been at home a few days, he rode out with Regin one morning to the heath where the Dragon used to lie.
Who acts: Sigurd, Dragon · What happens: be, ride out, use, lie · To what, where: home, heath
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, Dragon), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 been | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 been | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 rode | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 been | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 rode | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 15 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 morning | compound |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 morning | nummod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heath | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heath | det |
| 20 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 used | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dragon | det |
| 23 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 used | nsubj |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heath | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lie | mark |
| 26 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 used | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past · perfect | Sigurd | home | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | ride out | past | Sigurd | the heath | morning | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to heath=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | use | past | the Dragon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | the Dragon not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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