The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 107

Then Brynhild’s father told Gunnar that she would marry none but him who could ride the flame in front of her enchanted tower, and thither they rode, and Gunnar set his horse at the flame, but he would not face it.

Who acts: father, Brynhild, poppy, Gunnar · What happens: tell, marry, ride, enchant, set, not face · To what, where: Gunnar, none, flame, front, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, Brynhild, poppy, Gunnar), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Brynhild	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 marry	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 marry	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 him	cc
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 none	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ride	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ride	aux
16	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 none	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flame	det
18	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ride	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 front	case
20	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ride	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 tower	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tower	nmod:poss
23	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tower	amod
24	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 front	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rode	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rode	cc
27	thither	thither	ADV	_	29 rode	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rode	nsubj
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
32	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 set	nsubj
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rode	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 horse	nmod:poss
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 flame	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 flame	det
38	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 face	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 face	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 face	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 face	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 face	advmod
44	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 rode	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 face	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Brynhild's father		Gunnar		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gunnar=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	would	Brynhild	none					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
3	ride	could		the flame		front of Brynhild's enchanted tower			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme
4	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	ride	past	poppy					thither property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	set	past	Gunnar	father's horse		the flame			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at flame=Destination
7	not face	would	father	flame					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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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