The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 12

And his wife called her maid to her and said, ‘Let us change clothes, and you shall be called by my name, and I by yours, lest the enemy finds us.’

Who acts: wife, us, name, enemy, my · What happens: call, say, let, change, find, name · To what, where: maid, us, clothes, you · 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 (wife, us, name, enemy), 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	_	4 called	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 maid	nmod:poss
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
13	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Let	obj
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	xcomp
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 change	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj:pass
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Let	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 name	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yours	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 yours	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 yours	nsubj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 yours	case
30	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 called	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 finds	punct
32	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	35 finds	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 enemy	det
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 finds	nsubj
35	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	parataxis
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 finds	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 finds	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	King's wife	wife's maid	maid	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Topic to she=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	King's wife not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
4	change	infinitive	us not said here	clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
5	call	shall · passive	my name	you		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
6	find	present	the enemy	us		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic
7	name		my			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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