The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 61
But Sigurd waited till half of him had crawled over the pit, and then he thrust the sword Gram right into his very heart.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: wait, crawl, thrust · To what, where: half, pit, sword, heart
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 waited | cc |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 crawled | mark |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 crawled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 half | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crawled | aux |
| 9 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 pit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pit | det |
| 12 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrust | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thrust | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 thrust | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thrust | nsubj |
| 17 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrust | obj |
| 20 | Gram | Gram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sword | appos |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 heart | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 heart | advmod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrust | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Sigurd | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crawl | past · perfect · passive | half of Sigurd | the pit | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrust | past | Sigurd | the sword | Sigurd's heart | then | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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