The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 85
‘High over Hindfell Red fire is flaming, There doth the maiden dwell She that should love thee well, Meet for thy taming.
Who acts: dwell, maiden dwell · What happens: flame, do, that, love, meet · To what, where: maiden dwell, thee
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 (dwell, maiden dwell), 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 High | punct |
| 2 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flaming | amod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 4 | Hindfell | Hindfell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fire | compound |
| 5 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fire | compound |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 High | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flaming | aux |
| 8 | flaming | flame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 doth | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doth | punct |
| 10 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 doth | expl |
| 11 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dwell | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dwell | amod |
| 14 | dwell | dwell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 love | nsubj |
| 15 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 that | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dwell | acl:relcl |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 love | aux |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 doth | ccomp |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 love | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Meet | punct |
| 22 | Meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 love | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 taming | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 taming | nmod:poss |
| 25 | taming | taming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Meet | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 doth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flame | present · progressive | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | that | past | dwell | the maiden dwell not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | should | the maiden dwell | thee | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | meet | infinitive | the maiden dwell not said here | for thy taming | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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