The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 54
At first Sigurd was rather frightened, but he remembered what Ingiborg had said, and gave the giantess her sister’s message and the ring.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: be, remember, say, give · To what, where: Ingiborg, message, giantess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 frightened | obl |
| 3 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | cop |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remembered | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remembered | nsubj |
| 10 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 remembered | obj |
| 12 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remembered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giantess | det |
| 19 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 message | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 sister | case |
| 23 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ring | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ring | det |
| 26 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 message | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sigurd | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | past | Sigurd | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Ingiborg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Sigurd not said here | giantess's sister's message and the ring | the giantess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent giantess=Recipient message=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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