The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 77
‘There lies Regin, ready to betray Sigurd, who trusts him.’
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: lie, betray, trust · To what, where: Regin, Sigurd
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lies | expl |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Regin | Regin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 betray | mark |
| 8 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 betray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trusts | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 trusts | nsubj |
| 12 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Sigurd | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trusts | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Regin | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location regin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betray | to-infinitive | Sigurd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trust | present | Sigurd | Sigurd | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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