The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 42

Then the poor Dwarf was very angry, and he prayed that the gold might never bring any but bad luck to all the men who might own it, for ever.

Who acts: poor Dwarf, dwarf, gold, men · What happens: be, pray, not bring, own · To what, where: any, men, gold

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 (poor Dwarf, dwarf, gold, men), 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	7 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dwarf	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dwarf	amod
4	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prayed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prayed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 prayed	nsubj
11	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 bring	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 bring	advmod
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prayed	ccomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 bring	obj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 luck	cc
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luck	amod
21	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 any	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 men	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 men	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bring	obl
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 own	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 own	aux
28	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 men	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 own	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ever	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 own	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor Dwarf			then	angry property	tree rules
2	pray	past	dwarf					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not bring	might	the gold	any	all men			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent any=Theme to man=Destination
4	own	might	all men	gold				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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