The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 57

Then he saw the track which the Dragon made when he went to a cliff to drink, and the track was as if a great river had rolled along and left a deep valley.

Who acts: Sigurd, Dragon · What happens: see, make, go, drink, roll, leave · To what, where: track, cliff, deep valley

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 track	det
5	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dragon	det
8	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 track	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 went	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cliff	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cliff	det
15	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rolled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rolled	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 track	det
21	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rolled	aux:pass
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 rolled	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 rolled	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 river	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 river	amod
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rolled	aux
29	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 rolled	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 valley	det
34	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 valley	amod
35	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Sigurd	the track		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus
2	make	past	the Dragon	the track				tree rules
3	go	past	Sigurd		a cliff			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Initial_Location
4	drink	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roll a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the track			along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
6	leave	past	Sigurd not said here	a deep valley				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=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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