The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 71
So Sigurd put the heart of Fafnir on a stake, and roasted it.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: put, roast · To what, where: heart, stake
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.
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Fafnir | case |
| 7 | Fafnir | Fafnir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stake | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stake | det |
| 10 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roasted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roasted | cc |
| 13 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 roasted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Sigurd | the heart of Fafnir | a stake | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on stake=Destination | |||
| 2 | roast | past | Sigurd not said here | heart | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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