The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 132
She had lost her true love, Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir, and she was married to a man who was a liar.
Who acts: pride, man · What happens: lose, marry, be, love · To what, where: true love, pride, liar
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 (pride, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 love | amod |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sigurd | punct |
| 8 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 love | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slayer | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slayer | det |
| 11 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sigurd | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fafnir | case |
| 13 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slayer | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 married | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 married | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lost | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 married | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 liar | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 liar | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 liar | det |
| 25 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | pride | pride's true love | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | pride | to a man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to man=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a man | a liar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | pride | nom love «feeling 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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