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title: Then his tutor, whose name was Regin, told him that all this great h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then his tutor, whose name was Regin, told him that all this great hoard of red gold had once belonged to his own father. Who acts: name, tutor, great hoard, Regin. 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 34

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Then his tutor, whose name was Regin, told him that all this great hoard of red gold had once belonged to his own father.

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**Who acts:** name, tutor, great hoard, Regin · **What happens:** be, tell, belong, name, hoard · **To what, where:** Regin, Sigurd, red gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, tutor, great hoard, Regin), 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:pg540:51:34
# text = Then his tutor, whose name was Regin, told him that all this great hoard of red gold had once belonged to his own father.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tutor	tutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Regin	Regin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hoard	hoard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Regin's name | Regin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sigurd's tutor |  | Sigurd |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** | past · perfect | all great hoard of red gold |  |  |  |  | to Sigurd's own father; once *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Regin |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **hoard** |  |  | red gold |  |  |  |  | nom hoard «possession transitive»: of=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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