The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 60
And a cloud of venom flew before him as he snorted and roared, so that it would have been death to stand before him.
Who acts: cloud, Sigurd · What happens: fly, snort, roar, be, stand, cloud · To what, where: death, venom
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 (cloud, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flew | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 venom | case |
| 5 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloud | nmod |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 snorted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 snorted | nsubj |
| 11 | snorted | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roared | cc |
| 13 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 snorted | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 death | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 death | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 death | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 death | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 death | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 death | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 death | cop |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stand | mark |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 death | acl |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stand | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a cloud of venom | before Sigurd | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | snort | past | Sigurd | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roar | past | Sigurd not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | would · perfect | cloud | death | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | a cloud of venom not said here | before Sigurd | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 6 | cloud | venom | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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