--- title: This time the fight was fierce and long, but when at length Sigurd’s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time the fight was fierce and long, but when at length Sigurd’s strength was failing the giantess gave him something to drink, and after he had drunk it he soon brought her to her knees. Who acts: time, length, giantess, Sigurd. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/) / 75 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 75 This time the fight was fierce and long, but when at length Sigurd’s strength was failing the giantess gave him something to drink, and after he had drunk it he soon brought her to her knees. **Who acts:** time, length, giantess, Sigurd · **What happens:** be, fail, give, drink, bring · **To what, where:** something, Sigurd, strength, giantess, knees This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, length, giantess, Sigurd), 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:pg2435:33:75 # text = This time the fight was fierce and long, but when at length Sigurd’s strength was failing the giantess gave him something to drink, and after he had drunk it he soon brought her to her knees. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 failing fail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 giantess giantess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | this time | | | | | fierce *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | this time *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fail** | past · progressive | length | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | the giantess | something | Sigurd | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme | | 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the giantess *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** | past · perfect | Sigurd | strength | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **bring** | past | Sigurd | giantess | | giantess's knees | | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to knee=Destination | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/76/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/)