The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 124
For her husband, she said, had ridden through the flame when no other man dared face it.
Who acts: Brynhild, other man · What happens: say, ride, dare · To what, where: flame, face · 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 (Brynhild, other man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 husband | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ridden | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ridden | aux |
| 9 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 flame | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flame | det |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ridden | obl |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 dared | mark |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 man | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dared | nsubj |
| 17 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ridden | advcl |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dared | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dared | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brynhild | for Brynhild's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · perfect | the flame | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through flame=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | dare | past | no other man | face | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/124/