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title: Wild with anger Prince Sigurd sprang from his horse and, sword in ha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild with anger Prince Sigurd sprang from his horse and, sword in hand, fell on the men and killed them all. Who acts: sword. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 17

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Wild with anger Prince Sigurd sprang from his horse and, sword in hand, fell on the men and killed them all.

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**Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** spring, fall, kill · **To what, where:** sword

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:34:17
# text = Wild with anger Prince Sigurd sprang from his horse and, sword in hand, fell on the men and killed them all.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past |  |  |  |  |  | from Sigurd's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fall** | past | sword in hand |  |  |  |  | on the men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on man=Location |
| 3 | **kill** | past | sword in hand *not said here* | sword |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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