The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 86
‘There must she sleep till thou Comest for her waking Rise up and ride, for now Sure she will swear the vow Fearless of breaking.’
Who acts: dwell, waking, Fearless · What happens: sleep, rise up, ride, swear, break, wake · To what, where: vow
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, waking, Fearless), 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 | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 sleep | expl |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleep | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 Comest | case |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Comest | nsubj |
| 8 | Comest | Comest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sleep | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 Rise | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 waking | nmod:poss |
| 11 | waking | waking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rise | nsubj |
| 12 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sleep | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 Rise | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ride | cc |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Rise | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sure | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Sure | case |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 Sure | advmod |
| 19 | Sure | Sure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ride | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 swear | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 swear | aux |
| 22 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ride | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 vow | det |
| 24 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swear | obj |
| 25 | Fearless | Fearless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 vow | appos |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 breaking | mark |
| 27 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Fearless | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | must | dwell | there | till Comest | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rise up | infinitive | dwell's waking | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | infinitive | dwell's waking not said here | for Sure | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | swear | future | dwell | the vow | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent vow=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | break | gerund | Fearless not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | wake | dwell | nom waking «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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