The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 88

She was under a spell, so that she must always sleep in a castle surrounded by flaming fire; there she must sleep for ever till there came a knight who would ride through the fire and waken her.

Who acts: story, knight · What happens: be, sleep, surround, flame, come, ride · To what, where: spell, castle, fire, story

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 (story, knight), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spell	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spell	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 spell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleep	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 sleep	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spell	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	obl
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 castle	acl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 flaming	mark
18	flaming	flame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 surrounded	advcl
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flaming	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sleep	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 sleep	expl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sleep	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	aux
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spell	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 ever	case
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 sleep	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 came	expl
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 knight	det
31	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 ride	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 ride	aux
34	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knight	acl:relcl
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ride	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 waken	cc
39	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ride	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 waken	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	story		a spell		tree rules
2	sleep	must	story		a castle	always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location
3	surround	participle		a castle not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	flame	gerund		fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	sleep	must	story		there		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	a knight		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ride	would	a knight		the fire		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through fire=Trajectory
8	waken	infinitive	a knight not said here	story			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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