The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 30

But a day or two later his tutor said to Sigurd, ‘There is a great treasure of gold hidden not far from here, and it would become you to win it.’

Who acts: tutor, great treasure, treasure · What happens: say, be, hide, become, win, treasure · To what, where: Sigurd, gold, you, treasure · 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 (tutor, great treasure, treasure), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 later	obl:unmarked
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	conj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 said	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tutor	nmod:poss
8	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Sigurd	case
11	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 treasure	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 treasure	amod
18	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 treasure	nmod
21	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gold	acl
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hidden	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 here	case
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 far	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 become	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 become	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 become	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 become	aux
30	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 become	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 win	mark
33	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 become	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 win	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	horse's tutor		Sigurd		late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sigurd=Recipient
2	be	present	a great treasure of gold			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	participle		gold not said here			far property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	would	treasure	you				tree rules
5	win	to-infinitive	treasure not said here	treasure				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	treasure			gold				nom treasure «possession 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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