The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 134
‘Not long to wait,’ he said, ‘till the bitter sword stands fast in my heart, and thou will not live long when I am dead.
Who acts: Sigurd, thou, I · What happens: wait, say, stand, not live, be · To what, where: 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, thou, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 sword | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sword | det |
| 14 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sword | amod |
| 15 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obl |
| 16 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 stands | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 live | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 live | advmod |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stands | advcl |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 live | advmod |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 dead | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 dead | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 dead | cop |
| 31 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 live | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | to-infinitive | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sigurd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | present | Sigurd not said here | my heart | till the bitter sword | fast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location | ||
| 4 | not live | future | thou | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | dead property | 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/pg540/51/134/