The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 6
The old King went out and fought bravely, but at last his sword broke, and he was wounded and his men fled.
Who acts: old King, last, King, men · What happens: go out, fight, break, be, flee
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 (old King, last, King, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fought | cc |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 7 fought | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 broke | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wounded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wounded | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wounded | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wounded | cop |
| 20 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 broke | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fled | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 men | nmod:poss |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | nsubj |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wounded | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old King | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the old King not said here | bravely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | past | last | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | King | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | King's men | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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