--- title: When evening came Sigurd asked leave to go home with her, but Helga… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When evening came Sigurd asked leave to go home with her, but Helga at first forbade him, as no stranger had ever managed to enter their house without being found out by her father, who was a very fierce giant. Who acts: evening, Sigurd, Helga, father. 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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 (evening, Sigurd, Helga, father), 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:pg2435:33:86 # text = When evening came Sigurd asked leave to go home with her, but Helga at first forbade him, as no stranger had ever managed to enter their house without being found out by her father, who was a very fierce giant. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 6 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 obl _ _ 17 forbade forbid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 25 managed manage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 without without SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 very very ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | evening | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sigurd | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with girl; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | | 5 | **forbid** | past | Helga | Sigurd | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | | 6 | **manage** | past · perfect · passive | | no stranger | | | ever | | tree rules | | 7 | **enter** | to-infinitive | | brothers's house | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | | 8 | **find out** | gerund · passive | girl's father and a fierce giant | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | past | girl's father and a fierce giant | a fierce giant | | | | | 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 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/87/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/33/)