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The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 140

She mixed serpent’s venom and wolf’s flesh, and gave them in one dish to her husband’s younger brother, and when he had tasted them he was mad, and he went into Sigurd’s chamber while he slept and pinned him to the bed with a sword.

Who acts: Brynhild, Sigurd · What happens: mix, give, taste, be, go, sleep · To what, where: venom, fires, one dish, chamber, 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 (Brynhild, Sigurd), 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

nsubjnmod:posscaseobjccnmod:posscaseconjpunctccconjiobjcasenummodoblcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseamodoblpunctccadvmodnsubjauxparataxisobjnsubjcopconjpunctccnsubjparataxiscasenmod:posscaseoblmarknsubjadvclccconjobjcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctrootShePRONmixedVERBserpentNOUN’sPARTvenomNOUNandCCONJwolfNOUN’sPARTfleshNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgaveVERBthemPRONinADPoneNUMdishNOUNtoADPherPRONhusbandNOUN’sPARTyoungerADJbrotherNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONhadAUXtastedVERBthemPRONhePRONwasAUXmadADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONwentVERBintoADPSigurdPROPN’sPARTchamberNOUNwhileSCONJhePRONsleptVERBandCCONJpinnedVERBhimPRONtoADPtheDETbedNOUNwithADPaDETswordNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 mixednsubj
2mixedmixVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3serpentserpentNOUNNumber=Sing5 venomnmod:poss
4’s'sPART_3 serpentcase
5venomvenomNOUNNumber=Sing2 mixedobj
6andandCCONJ_9 fleshcc
7wolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing9 fleshnmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 wolfcase
9fleshfleshNOUNNumber=Sing5 venomconj
10,,PUNCT_12 gavepunct
11andandCCONJ_12 gavecc
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 mixedconj
13themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 gaveiobj
14ininADP_16 dishcase
15oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 dishnummod
16dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobl
17totoADP_22 brothercase
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 husbandnmod:poss
19husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing22 brothernmod:poss
20’s'sPART_19 husbandcase
21youngeryoungADJDegree=Cmp22 brotheramod
22brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobl
23,,PUNCT_28 tastedpunct
24andandCCONJ_28 tastedcc
25whenwhenADVPronType=Int28 tastedadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 tastednsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 tastedaux
28tastedtasteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 mixedparataxis
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 tastedobj
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 madnsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 madcop
32madmadADJDegree=Pos28 tastedconj
33,,PUNCT_36 wentpunct
34andandCCONJ_36 wentcc
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 wentnsubj
36wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 mixedparataxis
37intointoADP_40 chambercase
38SigurdSigurdPROPNNumber=Sing40 chambernmod:poss
39’s'sPART_38 Sigurdcase
40chamberchamberNOUNNumber=Sing36 wentobl
41whilewhileSCONJ_43 sleptmark
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 sleptnsubj
43sleptsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 wentadvcl
44andandCCONJ_45 pinnedcc
45pinnedpinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 wentconj
46himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 pinnedobj
47totoADP_49 bedcase
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 beddet
49bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing45 pinnedobl
50withwithADP_52 swordcase
51aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art52 sworddet
52swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing45 pinnedobl
53..PUNCT_2 mixedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1mixpastBrynhildserpent's venom and wolf's fleshvn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient
2givepastBrynhild not said herefires = fireone dishto Brynhild's husband's younger brothervn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to brother=Recipient
3tastepast · perfectSigurdfires = firevn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
4ispastSigurdmad propertytree rules
5gopastSigurdSigurd's chambervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
6sleeppastSigurdvn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7pinpastSigurd not said hereSigurdto the bed; with a swordvn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient to bed=Co-Patient with sword=Instrument

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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