The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 74
Then immediately he understood the language of birds, and he heard the Woodpeckers say:
Who acts: Sigurd, Woodpeckers · What happens: understand, hear, say · To what, where: language · 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 (Sigurd, Woodpeckers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 understood | advmod |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 understood | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 language | det |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 birds | case |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 language | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woodpeckers | det |
| 14 | Woodpeckers | Woodpecker | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Sigurd | the language of birds | then | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | hear | past | Sigurd | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the Woodpeckers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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