The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 70
Then Sigurd rode back, and met Regin, and Regin asked him to roast Fafnir’s heart and let him taste of it.
Who acts: Sigurd, Regin · What happens: ride back, meet, ask, roast, let, taste · To what, where: Regin, Sigurd, heart
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, Regin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 8 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 11 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 roast | mark |
| 15 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Fafnir | case |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roast | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 roast | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taste | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | Sigurd | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Sigurd not said here | Regin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regin=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Regin | Sigurd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | roast not said to happen | to-infinitive | Regin not said here | Fafnir's heart | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | Regin not said here | Sigurd | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | taste | infinitive | Sigurd not said here | of heart | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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