The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 121
Still he could not keep away the curse which was to come on every one who owned the treasure of the dwarf Andvari, and his fatal golden ring.
Who acts: Sigurd, curse, one · What happens: not keep away, come, own, treasure · To what, where: curse, fatal golden ring, treasure, 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 (Sigurd, curse, one), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 keep | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 curse | det |
| 8 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 curse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 owned | nsubj |
| 17 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 treasure | det |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 owned | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Andvari | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Andvari | det |
| 22 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Andvari | amod |
| 23 | Andvari | Andvari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 treasure | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ring | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ring | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ring | amod |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ring | amod |
| 29 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep away | could | Sigurd | the curse | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the curse | Sigurd's fatal golden ring | on every one | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location | |||
| 3 | own | past | every one | the treasure of the dwarf Andvari | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treasure | the dwarf Andvari | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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