The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 139
Sigurd went out and Brynhild determined to slay him.
Who acts: Sigurd, Brynhild · What happens: go out, determine, slay · To what, where: Sigurd
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, Brynhild), 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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 determined | cc |
| 5 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 slay | mark |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slay | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Sigurd | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | Brynhild | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | Brynhild not said here | Sigurd | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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