The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 97
This curse came upon her when the thorn of the tree of sleep ran into her hand long ago as a punishment because she had displeased Odin the God.
Who acts: curse, thorn · What happens: come, run, displease · To what, where: hand, curse
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 (curse, thorn), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 curse | det |
| 2 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 ran | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thorn | det |
| 8 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thorn | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | nmod |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 ago | advmod |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 punishment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 punishment | det |
| 22 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 displeased | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 displeased | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 displeased | aux |
| 26 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ran | advcl |
| 27 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 displeased | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 God | det |
| 29 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Odin | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this curse | upon waking | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the thorn of the tree of sleep | into waking's hand result; as a punishment; ago property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hand=Result | ||||
| 3 | displease | past · perfect · passive | curse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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