The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 20

‘My father gave me a gold ring,’ said she, ‘and always, ere the dawning, it grows cold on my finger.’

Who acts: father, Queen, dawning · What happens: give, say, ‘, ere, grow · To what, where: gold ring, me, dawning, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, Queen, dawning), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	compound
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ‘	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ere	cc
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 ere	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 always	punct
18	ere	ere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ‘	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dawning	det
20	dawning	dawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ere	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grows	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grows	nsubj
23	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grows	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 finger	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 finger	nmod:poss
27	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 grows	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	My father	a gold ring	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ring=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	‘		Queen					tree rules
4	ere	infinitive	Queen not said here	the dawning			always property	tree rules
5	grow	present	dawning			my finger	cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location

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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