The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 39

Then he knew his son was dead, and to punish the person who had killed him he said he must have the Otter’s skin filled with gold, and covered all over with red gold, or it should go worse with him.

Who acts: Otter, son, person · What happens: know, be, punish, kill, say, have · To what, where: person, skin · 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 (Otter, son, person), 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	3 knew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 punish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 punish	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 punish	mark
11	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 killed	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 killed	aux
16	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 person	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 killed	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 punish	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Otter	det
24	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 skin	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Otter	case
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
27	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 skin	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 filled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 covered	cc
32	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 over	advmod
34	over	over	ADV	_	32 covered	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 gold	case
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gold	amod
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 go	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 go	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 go	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 go	aux
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
43	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 go	xcomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 go	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Otter		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Otter's son			dead property	tree rules
3	punish	to-infinitive	Otter not said here				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	past · perfect · passive		the person			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
5	say speech: assert	past	the person				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	must	Otter	the Otter's skin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
7	fill	participle		the Otter's skin not said here		with gold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument
8	cover	past				with red gold; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
9	go	should	person			with Otter; bad property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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