The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 112

And he gave her a ring, and she gave him back the ring he had given her before in his own shape as Sigurd, and it was the last ring of that poor dwarf Andvari.

Who acts: Sigurd, Brynhild, ring, shape · What happens: give, give back, be · To what, where: ring, Brynhild, Sigurd, last ring

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 (Sigurd, Brynhild, ring, shape), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gave	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ring	acl:relcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shape	nmod:poss
19	before	before	ADP	_	23 shape	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shape	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shape	amod
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 Sigurd	case
25	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 shape	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ring	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ring	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ring	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ring	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ring	det
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ring	amod
32	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 Andvari	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 Andvari	nsubj
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Andvari	amod
36	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Andvari	amod
37	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ring	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Sigurd	a ring	Brynhild		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme
2	give back	past	Brynhild	the ring	Sigurd		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive	the ring not said here	Sigurd			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient shape=Theme
4	is a	past	shape	the last ring		of poor dwarf Andvari	tree rules

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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