The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 45

First Fafnir, the Dragon, killed his own father, and then he went and wallowed on the gold, and would let his brother have none, and no man dared go near it.

Who acts: Fafnir, man · What happens: kill, go, wallow, let, have, dare · To what, where: own father, gold, brother, none

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 (Fafnir, man), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Fafnir	advmod
2	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Dragon	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dragon	det
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fafnir	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fafnir	punct
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 went	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wallowed	cc
17	wallowed	wallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 went	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 gold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gold	det
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wallowed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 let	aux
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 let	conj
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 have	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dared	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dared	cc
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dared	nsubj
33	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	conj
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dared	xcomp
35	near	near	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	kill	past	Fafnir and the Dragon	Fafnir's own father			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	go	past	Fafnir			then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wallow	participle	Fafnir not said here		the gold		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	let	would		Fafnir's brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
5	have	present		none			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
6	dare	past	no man				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	infinitive	no man not said here		gold		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/45/