The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 100

But now she and Sigurd loved each other, and promised to be true to each other, and he gave her a ring, and it was the last ring taken from the dwarf Andvari.

Who acts: curse, Sigurd, ring · What happens: love, promise, be, give, take · To what, where: each, ring, curse, last ring, dwarf Andvari

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curse, Sigurd, ring), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 loved	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 loved	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sigurd	cc
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 she	conj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 loved	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promised	cc
11	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 true	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 promised	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 true	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 promised	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ring	det
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ring	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ring	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ring	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ring	det
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ring	amod
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	parataxis
32	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ring	acl
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 Andvari	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Andvari	det
35	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Andvari	amod
36	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 taken	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	curse	each			now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	promise speech: promise	past	curse not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	curse not said here					to each; true property	tree rules
4	give	past	Sigurd	a ring	curse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme
5	is a	past	ring	the last ring					tree rules
6	take	participle		the last ring not said here		the dwarf Andvari			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from andvari=Initial_Location

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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