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title: First Fafnir, the Dragon, killed his own father, and then he went an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 45

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First Fafnir, the Dragon, killed his own father, and then he went and wallowed on the gold, and would let his brother have none, and no man dared go near it.

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**Who acts:** Fafnir, man · **What happens:** kill, go, wallow, let, have, dare · **To what, where:** own father, gold, brother, none

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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 (Fafnir, man), 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:pg540:51:45
# text = First Fafnir, the Dragon, killed his own father, and then he went and wallowed on the gold, and would let his brother have none, and no man dared go near it.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wallowed	wallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
35	near	near	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Fafnir and the Dragon | Fafnir's own father |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Fafnir |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wallow** | participle | Fafnir *not said here* |  |  | the gold |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | would |  | Fafnir's brother |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
| 6 | **dare** | past | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  | gold |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location |

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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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