The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 4
Sigurd was not averse to this, and asked his father where he thought it best to look for a wife.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: not be, ask, think, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). 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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 averse | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 averse | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 averse | advmod |
| 4 | averse | averse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 averse | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 averse | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 best | nsubj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 thought | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 best | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 best | expl |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 best | csubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wife | det |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 averse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Sigurd | to this; averse property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Sigurd | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | for a wife | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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