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title: ‘We know a fair maid, A fair maiden sleeping; Sigurd, be not afraid,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We know a fair maid, A fair maiden sleeping; Sigurd, be not afraid, Sigurd, win thou the maidv Fortune is keeping. Who acts: We, Sigurd, maidv Fortune. 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 84

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‘We know a fair maid, A fair maiden sleeping; Sigurd, be not afraid, Sigurd, win thou the maidv Fortune is keeping.

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**Who acts:** We, Sigurd, maidv Fortune · **What happens:** know, not be, win, keep · **To what, where:** fair maid, thou

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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 (We, Sigurd, maidv Fortune), 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:pg540:51:84
# text = ‘We know a fair maid, A fair maiden sleeping; Sigurd, be not afraid, Sigurd, win thou the maidv Fortune is keeping.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	maidv	maidv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | We | a fair maid and a fair maiden sleeping |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | Sigurd *obl*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | present | We *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present · progressive | the maidv Fortune |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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