The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 43

Then the otter skin was filled with gold and covered with gold, all but one hair, and that was covered with the poor Dwarf’s last ring.

What happens: fill, cover · To what, where: otter skin, that

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: 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	6 filled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
3	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux:pass
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 covered	cc
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 filled	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hair	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hair	det
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hair	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hair	nummod
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gold	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 covered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 covered	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 covered	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 covered	aux:pass
22	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 filled	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	29 ring	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Dwarf	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Dwarf	amod
26	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ring	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Dwarf	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ring	amod
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive	the otter skin	then	with gold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument
2	cover	participle			with gold but all one hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
3	cover	past · passive	that		with the poor Dwarf's last ring	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ring=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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