The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 84
‘We know a fair maid, A fair maiden sleeping; Sigurd, be not afraid, Sigurd, win thou the maidv Fortune is keeping.
Who acts: We, Sigurd, maidv Fortune · What happens: know, not be, win, keep · To what, where: fair maid, thou
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 (We, Sigurd, maidv Fortune), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maid | amod |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleeping | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sleeping | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleeping | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleeping | amod |
| 11 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maid | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 13 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afraid | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sigurd | punct |
| 19 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 afraid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 win | punct |
| 21 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 win | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fortune | det |
| 24 | maidv | maidv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Fortune | compound |
| 25 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeping | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keeping | aux |
| 27 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 win | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | a fair maid and a fair maiden sleeping | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | Sigurd | Sigurd obl; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | present | We not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | present · progressive | the maidv Fortune | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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