The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 110
Then Sigurd, in the shape of Gunnar and in his mail, mounted on Grani, and Grani leaped the fence of fire, and Sigurd went in and found Brynhild, but he did not remember her yet, because of the forgetful medicine in the cup of the witch’s wine.
Who acts: Sigurd, Gunnar · What happens: mount, leap, go in, find, not remember, mail · To what, where: Gunnar, Grani, fence, Brynhild
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 (Sigurd, 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 | 20 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shape | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shape | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shape | det |
| 6 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sigurd | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gunnar | case |
| 8 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shape | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mail | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mail | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Gunnar | conj | ||
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Gunnar | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Grani | case |
| 16 | Grani | Grani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leaped | cc |
| 19 | Grani | Grani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | nsubj |
| 20 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fence | det |
| 22 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fence | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 27 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 leaped | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 found | cc |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 32 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 remember | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 remember | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 remember | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 remember | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 remember | advmod |
| 38 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leaped | parataxis |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 remember | obj |
| 40 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 remember | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 medicine | punct |
| 42 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 46 medicine | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 because | fixed |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 medicine | det |
| 45 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 medicine | amod |
| 46 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remember | parataxis |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 cup | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 cup | det |
| 49 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 medicine | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 wine | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 witch | det |
| 52 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 wine | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 52 witch | case |
| 54 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 cup | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle | Gunnar and Gunnar's mail not said here | Grani | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grani=Destination | ||||
| 2 | leap | past | Sigurd | the fence of fire | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go in | past | Sigurd | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | Sigurd not said here | Brynhild | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brynhild=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not remember | past · do-support | Sigurd | Brynhild | yet | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | Gunnar | nom mail «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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