The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 68

Die thou, Fafnir,’ and then Fafnir died.

Who acts: you, Fafnir · What happens: die · To what, where: thou

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, Fafnir), 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	Die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Die	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fafnir	punct
4	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Die	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fafnir	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Fafnir	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 died	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 died	advmod
9	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Die	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here	thou					tree rules
2	die	past	Fafnir				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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