The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 34

Then his tutor, whose name was Regin, told him that all this great hoard of red gold had once belonged to his own father.

Who acts: name, tutor, great hoard, Regin · What happens: be, tell, belong, name, hoard · To what, where: Regin, Sigurd, red gold · 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 (name, tutor, great hoard, Regin), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 told	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tutor	nmod:poss
3	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Regin	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Regin	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Regin	cop
8	Regin	Regin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tutor	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tutor	punct
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 belonged	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hoard	det
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 hoard	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hoard	amod
16	hoard	hoard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belonged	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 gold	case
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gold	amod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hoard	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 belonged	aux
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 belonged	advmod
22	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 father	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 father	amod
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belonged	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Regin's name	Regin				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Sigurd's tutor		Sigurd	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	belong	past · perfect	all great hoard of red gold				to Sigurd's own father; once property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	name		Regin					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	hoard			red gold				nom hoard «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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