The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 64
‘Whoever thou art that hast slain me this gold shall be thy ruin, and the ruin of all who own it.’
Who acts: ruin · What happens: slain, be, own · To what, where: me, ruin, 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 (ruin), 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 | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 2 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 art | nsubj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | nsubj |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 slain | mark |
| 6 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | aux |
| 7 | slain | slain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 art | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 slain | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 gold | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | obj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ruin | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ruin | cop |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 own | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 own | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ruin | det |
| 18 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 own | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 ruin | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 own | nsubj |
| 22 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 art | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 own | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slain | present | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | shall | thy ruin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | own | present | the ruin of all | 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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