The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 93
Then he set the horse Grani at the fire, and he leaped through it lightly, as if it had been through the heather.
Who acts: Sigurd, back · What happens: set, leap, be · To what, where: horse, fire, back, heather
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, back), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | Grani | Grani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | appos |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaped | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaped | nsubj |
| 13 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaped | obl |
| 16 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 13 leaped | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heather | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 heather | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 heather | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heather | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heather | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 heather | cop |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 heather | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heather | det |
| 25 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Sigurd | the horse | the fire | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at fire=Destination | ||
| 2 | leap | past | Sigurd | back | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | back | the heather | 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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