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title: ‘There is Sigurd roasting Fafnir’s heart for another, when he should… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘There is Sigurd roasting Fafnir’s heart for another, when he should taste of it himself and learn all wisdom.’ Who acts: Sigurd. 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 75

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‘There is Sigurd roasting Fafnir’s heart for another, when he should taste of it himself and learn all wisdom.’

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**Who acts:** Sigurd · **What happens:** be, roast, taste, learn · **To what, where:** heart, Sigurd, wisdom

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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 (Sigurd), 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:pg540:51:75
# text = ‘There is Sigurd roasting Fafnir’s heart for another, when he should taste of it himself and learn all wisdom.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
5	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Sigurd |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roast** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* | Fafnir's heart |  |  |  | for another | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent heart=Patient for another=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **taste** | should | Sigurd | Sigurd |  |  |  | of heart | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **learn** | infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* | all wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |

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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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