The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 6
So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and went to where his father had directed him.
Who acts: two, Sigurd, father · What happens: part, prepare, go, direct · To what, where: Sigurd
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 (two, Sigurd, father), 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 | _ | 4 parted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 parted | nsubj |
| 4 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prepared | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prepared | cc |
| 7 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 prepared | nsubj |
| 8 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parted | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 journey | det |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prepared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parted | conj |
| 15 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 20 directed | mark |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 directed | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 directed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 directed | aux |
| 20 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 went | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 directed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | the two | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past | Sigurd | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the two not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | direct | past · perfect | Sigurd's father | Sigurd | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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