The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 135
But, dear Brynhild, live and be comforted, and love Gunnar thy husband, and I will give thee all the gold, the treasure of the dragon Fafnir.’
Who acts: dear Brynhild, love, I · What happens: live, comfort, husband, give, treasure · To what, where: gold, thee, dragon
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 (dear Brynhild, love, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 live | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brynhild | punct |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Brynhild | amod |
| 4 | Brynhild | brynhild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brynhild | punct |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 comforted | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 comforted | aux:pass |
| 9 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 live | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 husband | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 husband | cc |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 husband | nsubj |
| 13 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 love | appos |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 husband | parataxis |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 gold | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gold | det |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 treasure | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 treasure | det |
| 27 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gold | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dragon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dragon | det |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 treasure | nmod |
| 31 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 dragon | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | infinitive | dear Brynhild | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | comfort | infinitive · passive | dear Brynhild not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | husband | love | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | give | future | I | all gold | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient gold=Theme | |||
| 5 | treasure | the dragon | nom treasure «possession 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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