The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 59
There he waited, and presently the earth began to shake with the weight of the Dragon as he crawled to the water.
Who acts: Sigurd, earth · What happens: wait, begin, shake, crawl · To what, where: water
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, earth), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 waited | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 6 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shake | mark |
| 11 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 weight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weight | det |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shake | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dragon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dragon | det |
| 17 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 weight | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 crawled | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 crawled | nsubj |
| 20 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shake | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crawled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Sigurd | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the earth | presently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shake | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | with the weight of the Dragon | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with weight=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | crawl | past | Sigurd | the water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to water=Destination |
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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