The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 79

‘Let him cut off Regin’s head, and keep all the gold to himself.’

Who acts: you, Sigurd · What happens: let, cut off, keep · To what, where: Sigurd, head, gold

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, 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	Regin	Regin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Regin	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keep	cc
11	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 gold	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 keep	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Sigurd		tree rules
2	cut off	infinitive	Sigurd not said here	Regin's head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	all gold	Sigurd	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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