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title: Thus died Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, whom no ten men could have slain in… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus died Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, whom no ten men could have slain in fair fight. Who acts: ten men. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 142

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Thus died Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, whom no ten men could have slain in fair fight.

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**Who acts:** ten men · **What happens:** die, slay · **To what, where:** Sigurd, bane, fair fight

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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 (ten men), 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:pg540:51:142
# text = Thus died Sigurd, Fafnir’s bane, whom no ten men could have slain in fair fight.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bane	bane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past |  | Sigurd |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | could · perfect | no ten men | Fafnir's bane |  | fair fight |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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 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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