The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 81
‘That let him do, and then ride over Hindfell, to the place where Brynhild sleeps.’
Who acts: That, Sigurd, Brynhild · What happens: let, do, ride, sleep · To what, where: Sigurd, place
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 (That, Sigurd, Brynhild), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ride | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ride | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 ride | advmod |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 11 | Hindfell | Hindfell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 over | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 sleeps | advmod |
| 17 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sleeps | nsubj |
| 18 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | That | Sigurd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Sigurd not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | infinitive | the place | then | over property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sleep | present | Brynhild | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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