The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 32
‘He is no bigger than other dragons,’ said the tutor, ‘and if you were as brave as your father you would not fear him.’
Who acts: Sigurd, you · What happens: not be, say, be, not fear · To what, where: tutor, Sigurd · 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 (Sigurd, you), 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 | _ | 5 bigger | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bigger | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 bigger | advmod |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 dragons | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragons | amod |
| 8 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragons | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragons | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bigger | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tutor | det |
| 13 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tutor | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brave | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 brave | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 brave | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brave | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 brave | advmod |
| 21 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brave | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 fear | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fear | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fear | advmod |
| 28 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 father | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fear | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Sigurd | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sigurd not said here | the tutor and ‘ | than other dragons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tutor=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | you | as your father; brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fear | would | you | Sigurd | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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