The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 147
So there were Sigurd and Brynhild burned together, and the curse of the dwarf Andvari was fulfilled.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: be, burn, fulfil, curse · To what, where: curse, dwarf Andvari
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), 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 | _ | 7 burned | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 So | cop |
| 4 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 burned | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Brynhild | cc |
| 6 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sigurd | conj |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 burned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fulfilled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 curse | det |
| 12 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Andvari | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Andvari | det |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Andvari | amod |
| 16 | Andvari | Andvari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 curse | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 18 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 burned | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burn | past | Sigurd and Brynhild | together property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | past · passive | the curse of the dwarf Andvari | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | curse | the dwarf Andvari | nom curse «communication transitive»: of=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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