The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 95
Then he took the helmet off the head of the sleeper, and behold, she was a most beautiful lady.
Who acts: Sigurd, waking · What happens: take, be · To what, where: helmet, head, beautiful lady
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, waking), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 helmet | det |
| 5 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sleeper | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sleeper | det |
| 11 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lady | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lady | cc |
| 14 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 21 lady | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behold | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lady | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lady | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sigurd | the helmet | the head of the sleeper | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme off head=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | waking | a beautiful lady | 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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