The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 33

‘I am no coward,’ says Sigurd; ‘why do you want me to fight with this dragon?’

Who acts: I, Sigurd, you, me · What happens: be, say, want, fight · To what, where: coward, me · 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 (I, Sigurd, you, me), 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 coward	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 coward	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coward	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 coward	det
5	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coward	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 want	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 want	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fight	mark
18	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 dragon	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fight	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	no coward		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Sigurd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present · do-support	you	me		tree rules
4	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here		with this dragon	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent

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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