The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 105

Now the witch, the mother of Gudrun, wanted her son Gunnar to marry Brynhild, and she bade him ride out with Sigurd and go and woo her.

Who acts: witch, Brynhild · What happens: want, marry, bade, ride out, go, woo · To what, where: son, 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, Brynhild), 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 witch	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 witch	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Gudrun	case
8	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 witch	punct
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	obj
13	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 son	appos
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	advcl
16	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wanted	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bade	xcomp
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 ride	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 Sigurd	case
25	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ride	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ride	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 woo	cc
29	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ride	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 woo	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the witch	mother's son		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	Brynhild		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brynhild=Patient
3	bade	past	Brynhild	Gudrun		tree rules
4	ride out	infinitive	Brynhild not said here		with Sigurd; out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	go	infinitive	Brynhild not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	woo	infinitive	Brynhild not said here	Brynhild		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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