The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 8

Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get leave to go home again to his own country when he heard news of his father’s death.

Who acts: Sigurd, father · What happens: accept, add, have, get, leave, go · To what, where: condition, own country, news · 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, 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	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 added	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 added	cc
7	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accepted	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 added	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	xcomp
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 country	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 country	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 country	amod
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 heard	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 go	advcl
26	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 death	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 death	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 news	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	Sigurd	this condition				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	add speech: assert	past	Sigurd not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	would	Sigurd					tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	leave	infinitive	Sigurd not said here					tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here		Sigurd's own country	again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
7	hear	past	Sigurd	news of Sigurd's father's death				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
8	die		Sigurd's father					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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