The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 142

Thus died Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, whom no ten men could have slain in fair fight.

Who acts: ten men · What happens: die, slay · To what, where: Sigurd, bane, fair fight

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 (ten men), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 died	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bane	punct
5	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bane	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Fafnir	case
7	bane	bane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sigurd	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slain	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 slain	obj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 men	det
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slain	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 slain	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 slain	aux
15	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bane	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 fight	case
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fight	amod
18	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slain	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past		Sigurd				thus property	tree rules
2	slay	could · perfect	no ten men	Fafnir's bane		fair fight			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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