The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 9

And he told her that she would have a son, and that son would be a great warrior, and would avenge him on the other King, his enemy.

Who acts: King, sword, son · What happens: tell, have, be, avenge · To what, where: sword, son, great warrior, King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, sword, son), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warrior	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 warrior	cc
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 son	det
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 warrior	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 warrior	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 warrior	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 warrior	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warrior	amod
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 avenge	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 avenge	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 avenge	aux
23	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 avenge	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 King	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 King	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 King	amod
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 avenge	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enemy	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 avenge	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	King		sword		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	would	sword	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	would	that son	a great warrior			tree rules
4	avenge	would	King not said here	King		on the other King; King's enemy obl	tree rules

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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