The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 7

But in the night, when the battle was over, his young wife came out and searched for him among the slain, and at last she found him, and asked whether he might be healed.

Who acts: battle, young wife, wife · What happens: be, come out, search, find, ask, heal · To what, where: slain, King, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (battle, young wife, wife), 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	_	15 came	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 over	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 battle	det
8	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 over	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 searched	cc
18	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 searched	obl
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 slain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 slain	det
23	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 searched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 found	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 found	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 asked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 asked	cc
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	parataxis
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	38 healed	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 healed	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 healed	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 healed	aux:pass
38	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 asked	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the battle				over property	tree rules
2	come out	past	King's young wife			night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	search	past	King's young wife not said here		the slain		for King	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme among slain=Location
4	find	past	wife	King	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset
5	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	heal	might · passive		King				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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