The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 87
Then Sigurd remembered how the story went that somewhere, far away, there was a beautiful lady enchanted.
Who acts: Sigurd, story, beautiful lady · What happens: remember, go, be · 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, story, beautiful lady), 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 | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 somewhere | mark |
| 9 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 went | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 away | punct |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enchanted | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enchanted | nsubj |
| 19 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Sigurd | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the story | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a beautiful lady | enchant property | tree rules |
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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