--- title: Again Sigurd heard her, and begged Lineik to come to her help, and L… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Again Sigurd heard her, and begged Lineik to come to her help, and Lineik, feeling sorry for her distress, wove and embroidered the second dress as she had done the first, mixing gold thread and precious stones till you could hardly see the red of the stuff. Who acts: Sigurd, Laufer, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, Laufer, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:23:81 # text = Again Sigurd heard her, and begged Lineik to come to her help, and Lineik, feeling sorry for her distress, wove and embroidered the second dress as she had done the first, mixing gold thread and precious stones till you could hardly see the red of the stuff. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 Lineik Lineik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Lineik Lineik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 19 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 distress distress NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wove weave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 embroidered embroider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 38 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 43 till till SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 red red NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Sigurd | Laufer | | | again | Lineik *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Sigurd *not said here* | | Lineik | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lineik=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* | | | Laufer's help | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **feel** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* | | | | | for Laufer's distress; sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **weave** | past | Sigurd *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **embroider** | past | Sigurd *not said here* | the second dress | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product | | 7 | **do** | past · perfect | Laufer | the first | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **mix** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* | gold thread and precious stones | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | | 9 | **see** | could | you | the red of the stuff | | | | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus | | 10 | **help** | | Laufer | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **distress** | | Laufer | | | | | | nom distress «feeling transitive»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/82/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/)