The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 8
But he said ‘No,’ his luck was gone, his sword was broken, and he must die.
Who acts: King, luck · What happens: say, be, break, die · To what, where: sword · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, luck), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 5 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 gone | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 No | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 luck | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 luck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gone | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 die | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 die | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 die | aux |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 broken | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | King's luck | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | King's sword | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | die | must | King | 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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