The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 104
So one day Gudrun’s witch mother put poppy and forgetful drugs in a magical cup, and bade Sigurd drink to her health, and he drank, and instantly he forgot poor Brynhild and he loved Gudrun, and they were married with great rejoicings.
Who acts: witch mother, bade · What happens: put, drink, forget, love, marry · To what, where: poppy, magical cup, poor Brynhild, Gudrun
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 (witch mother, bade), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Gudrun | Gudrun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gudrun | case |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | compound |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | poppy | poppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drugs | cc |
| 11 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drugs | amod |
| 12 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 poppy | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cup | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 15 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cup | amod |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drink | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | nsubj |
| 20 | Sigurd | sigurd | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drink | aux |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 health | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 health | nmod:poss |
| 24 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drank | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drank | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drank | nsubj |
| 28 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drink | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forgot | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 forgot | cc |
| 31 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 33 forgot | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 forgot | nsubj |
| 33 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 drank | parataxis |
| 34 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Brynhild | amod |
| 35 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 forgot | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 loved | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 loved | nsubj |
| 38 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 forgot | conj |
| 39 | Gudrun | Gudrun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 loved | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 married | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 married | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 married | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 married | aux:pass |
| 44 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 drank | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 rejoicings | case |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 rejoicings | amod |
| 47 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 married | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | Gudrun's witch mother | poppy and forgetful drugs | a magical cup | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poppy=Theme in cup=Destination | ||
| 2 | drink | bade | to mother's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | bade | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | bade | poor Brynhild | instantly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | love | past | bade | Gudrun | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gudrun=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | marry | past · passive | poppy | with great rejoicings | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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