The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 103

Now Gudrun fell in love with Sigurd, but he was always talking of Brynhild, how beautiful she was and how dear.

Who acts: Gudrun, name · What happens: fall, talk, be · To what, where: love

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 (Gudrun, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Sigurd	case
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talking	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 talking	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 talking	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 talking	advmod
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fell	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Brynhild	case
15	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 talking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beautiful	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Brynhild	amod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dear	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dear	cop
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dear	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 dear	advmod
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 talking	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Gudrun	love	now	with Sigurd	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	talk	past · progressive	Gudrun			of Brynhild; always property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	name			dear property	tree rules

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.

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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