The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 47
‘Make me a good sword that I may kill this Dragon.’
Who acts: you, good sword · What happens: make, kill · To what, where: good sword, me, Dragon
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 (you, good sword), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | aux |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sword | acl:relcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Dragon | det |
| 12 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a good sword | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary sword=Product | |||
| 2 | kill | may | a good sword | this Dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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