The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 133

Then Sigurd came and tried to comfort her, but she would not listen, and said she wished the sword stood fast in his heart.

Who acts: Sigurd, pride, sword · What happens: come, try, comfort, not listen, say, wish · To what, where: pride, heart · 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 (Sigurd, pride, sword), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tried	cc
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 comfort	mark
7	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comfort	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sword	det
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wished	ccomp
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 stood	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 heart	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heart	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sigurd			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	Sigurd not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	comfort not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here	pride				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	not listen	would	pride					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Sigurd not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wish	past	pride					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	stand	past	the sword		Sigurd's heart		fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location

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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