The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 94
So Sigurd went within the castle door, and there he saw someone sleeping, clad all in armour.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: go, see, sleep, clad · To what, where: someone, armour
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | expl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 someone | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clad | punct |
| 16 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 clad | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 armour | case |
| 19 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clad | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sigurd | within the castle door | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Sigurd | someone | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | clad | past | Sigurd not said here | armour | all 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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