The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 129

And she said he would never see her glad in his hall, never drinking wine, never playing chess, never embroidering with the golden thread, never speaking words of kindness.

Who acts: Brynhild, Sigurd · What happens: say, not see, not drink, not play, not embroider, not speak · To what, where: glad, hall, wine, chess, words, kindness · 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, Sigurd), 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 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 glad	nmod:poss
9	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hall	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hall	nmod:poss
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drinking	punct
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 drinking	advmod
15	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drinking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 playing	punct
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 playing	advmod
19	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 drinking	conj
20	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 playing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 embroidering	punct
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 embroidering	advmod
23	embroidering	embroider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 playing	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 thread	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thread	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thread	amod
27	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 embroidering	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speaking	punct
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 speaking	advmod
30	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 drinking	conj
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 speaking	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 kindness	case
33	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 words	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Brynhild				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see	would	Sigurd	Brynhild's glad	Sigurd's hall		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glad=Stimulus
3	not drink	gerund	Brynhild not said here	wine			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
4	not play	gerund	Brynhild not said here	chess			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme
5	not embroider	gerund				with the golden thread	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thread=Theme
6	not speak speech: other	gerund	Brynhild not said here	words of kindness			tree rules
7	word			kindness			nom word «communication 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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