The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 58
Then Sigurd went down into that deep place, and dug many pits in it, and in one of the pits he lay hidden with his sword drawn.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: go down, dig, lie, hide, draw · To what, where: deep place, many pits, place, sword
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), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dug | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dug | cc |
| 11 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pits | amod |
| 13 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dug | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dug | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lay | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 lay | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pits | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pits | det |
| 22 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lay | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 sword | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sword | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hidden | obl |
| 29 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sword | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Sigurd | that deep place | then | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 2 | dig | past | Sigurd not said here | many pits | place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pit=Theme in it=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | Sigurd | in one of the pits | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | Sigurd not said here | with Sigurd's sword | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | draw | participle | Sigurd's sword not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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