The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 3

Because it is so old and so beautiful the story is told here again, but it has a sad ending—indeed it is all sad, and all about fighting and killing, as might be expected from the Danes.)

Who acts: tale · What happens: be, tell, have, fight, kill, expect · To what, where: old story, sad ending, Danes · 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 (tale), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 old	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 beautiful	advmod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 told	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ending	det
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ending	amod
21	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 sad	punct
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	27 sad	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sad	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sad	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 sad	advmod
27	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fighting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fighting	cc
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 fighting	advmod
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 fighting	case
32	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sad	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 killing	cc
34	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fighting	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 expected	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 expected	mark
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 expected	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 expected	aux:pass
39	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sad	advcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 Danes	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Danes	det
42	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 expected	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	tale				old property	tree rules
2	be		tale not said here					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the old story	here	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	present	tale	a sad ending				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient
5	is	present	tale				all, indeed, sad property	tree rules
6	fight	gerund					all property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	kill	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	expect	might · passive	tale not said here		the Danes			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

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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