The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 67

But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire.

Who acts: men, brave man, death, Sigurd · What happens: die, let, frighten, desire · To what, where: death, Sigurd, desire

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 (men, brave man, death, Sigurd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 die	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lets	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lets	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 man	det
8	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lets	nsubj
10	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 die	conj
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lets	obj
12	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lets	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frighten	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 desire	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 desire	nmod:poss
16	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frighten	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die	present	all men			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	let	present	no brave man	death		tree rules
3	frighten	infinitive	death not said here	Sigurd	Sigurd's desire	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	desire		Sigurd			nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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