The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 138
Then Sigurd was so grieved and his heart so swelled in his breast that it burst the steel rings of his shirt of mail.
Who acts: heart · What happens: grieve, swell, burst · To what, where: Sigurd, steel rings
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 (heart), 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 | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 5 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swelled | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swelled | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 swelled | advmod |
| 10 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 breast | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swelled | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 burst | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swelled | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rings | det |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rings | compound |
| 19 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burst | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 shirt | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rings | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mail | case |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shirt | nmod | ||
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | Sigurd | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swell | past | Sigurd's heart | in Sigurd's breast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in breast=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | heart | the steel rings of Sigurd's shirt of mail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme |
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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