The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 9
After that Sigurd married the Princess, and helped his father-in-law to govern the kingdom.
Who acts: Sigurd, father · What happens: marry, help, govern · To what, where: Princess, father, law, kingdom
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 married | obl |
| 3 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 helped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helped | cc |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 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 | 9 helped | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 govern | mark |
| 17 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helped | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 govern | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Sigurd | the Princess | after that | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 2 | help | past | Sigurd not said here | Sigurd's father | law | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | govern | to-infinitive | Sigurd's father not said here | the kingdom | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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