The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 115
‘Yet I thought,’ she said, ‘that no man could have done this deed but Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, who was my true love.
Who acts: I, Brynhild, man, bane · What happens: think, say, do, be · To what, where: deed, true love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Brynhild, man, bane), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 deed | det |
| 18 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 Sigurd | cc |
| 20 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bane | punct |
| 22 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bane | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Fafnir | case |
| 24 | bane | bane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Sigurd | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 love | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 love | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 love | cop |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 love | nmod:poss |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 love | amod |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bane | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | yet | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Brynhild | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | could · perfect | no man | this deed | Sigurd obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Fafnir's bane | my true love | 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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