The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 89
There he determined to go, but first he rode right down the horrible trail of Fafnir.
Who acts: knight · What happens: determine, go, ride · To what, where: horrible trail
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 (knight), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 determined | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 rode | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | conj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 trail | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trail | det |
| 14 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trail | amod |
| 15 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fafnir | case |
| 17 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 trail | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | knight | there | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | knight not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | knight | the horrible trail of Fafnir | first, right property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down trail=Trajectory |
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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