The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 98
Long ago, too, she had vowed never to marry a man who knew fear, and dared not ride through the fence of flaming fire.
Who acts: man, fence · What happens: vow, not marry, know, ride, flame · To what, where: curse, man, fear, fence, fire
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 (man, fence), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 vowed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ago | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 vowed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vowed | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 vowed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vowed | aux |
| 8 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 marry | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vowed | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marry | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ride | cc |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ride | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 dared | advmod |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vowed | advcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 fence | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fence | det |
| 24 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ride | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 flaming | mark |
| 26 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 fence | acl |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flaming | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past · perfect · passive | curse | ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not marry | to-infinitive | a man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know | past | a man | fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | the fence | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through fence=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | flame | gerund | the fence not said here | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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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