The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 50
Then Sigurd went to his mother, and asked for the broken pieces of his father’s blade, and gave them to Regin.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: go, ask, give · To what, where: pieces, Regin
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 (Sigurd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:4147): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pieces | det |
| 12 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pieces | amod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blade | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blade | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Regin | case |
| 24 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sigurd | then | to Sigurd's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Sigurd not said here | for the broken pieces of Sigurd's father's blade | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Sigurd not said here | pieces = piece | Regin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to regin=Recipient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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