The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 82
When Sigurd heard all this, and how Regin was plotting to betray him, he cut off Regin’s head with one blow of the sword Gram.
Who acts: Sigurd, Regin, sword · What happens: hear, plot, betray, cut off, blow · To what, where: this, Sigurd, head
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, Regin, sword), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cut | advcl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plotting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plotting | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 plotting | advmod |
| 9 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plotting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plotting | aux |
| 11 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 betray | mark |
| 13 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 plotting | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 betray | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | nsubj |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 19 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Regin | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blow | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 blow | nummod |
| 24 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sword | det |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blow | nmod |
| 28 | Gram | Gram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sword | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Sigurd | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | plot | past · progressive | Regin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | betray | to-infinitive | Regin not said here | Sigurd | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut off | past | Sigurd | Regin's head | with one blow of the sword | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | blow | the sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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