The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 145

So they attired Sigurd in all his golden armour, and built a great pile of wood on board his ship, and at night laid on it the dead Sigurd and the dead Brynhild, and the good horse, Grani, and set fire to it, and launched the ship.

Who acts: men · What happens: attire, build, lay, set, launch · To what, where: Sigurd, golden armour, great pile, ship, fire

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 attired	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 attired	nsubj
3	attired	attire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 attired	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 armour	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 armour	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 armour	nmod:poss
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 armour	amod
9	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attired	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 built	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 built	cc
12	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attired	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pile	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pile	amod
15	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pile	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 ship	case
19	board	board	ADP	_	21 ship	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ship	nmod:poss
21	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laid	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 night	case
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 attired	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laid	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sigurd	det
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Sigurd	amod
31	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl:agent
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Brynhild	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Brynhild	det
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Brynhild	amod
35	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sigurd	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 horse	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 horse	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 horse	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 horse	amod
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Sigurd	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Grani	punct
42	Grani	Grani	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sigurd	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 set	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 set	cc
45	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 attired	conj
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 set	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 set	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 launched	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 launched	cc
51	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attired	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ship	det
53	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 launched	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	attire	past	men = man	Sigurd		Sigurd's golden armour		vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient
2	build	past	men = man not said here	a great pile of wood		Sigurd's ship		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pile=Theme on ship=Source
3	lay	participle				ship	night	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
4	set	infinitive	men = man not said here	fire	ship			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
5	launch	past	men = man not said here	the ship				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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