The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 111

Now Brynhild had no help but to promise she would be his wife, the wife of Gunnar as she supposed, for Sigurd wore Gunnar’s shape, and she had sworn to wed whoever should ride the flames.

Who acts: Brynhild, Sigurd, whoever · What happens: have, promise, be, suppose, wear, swear · To what, where: help, wife, shape, flames · 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 (Brynhild, Sigurd, whoever), 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 had	advmod
2	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 help	det
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 promise	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 promise	mark
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wife	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wife	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Gunnar	case
18	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 supposed	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 supposed	nsubj
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wore	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 wore	mark
24	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wore	nsubj
25	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 supposed	conj
26	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shape	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Gunnar	case
28	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wore	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sworn	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sworn	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sworn	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sworn	aux
33	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wed	mark
35	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sworn	xcomp
36	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 ride	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 ride	aux
38	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wed	ccomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flames	det
40	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ride	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	Brynhild	no help	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient
2	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	Brynhild not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	Brynhild	Sigurd's wife and the wife of Gunnar		tree rules
4	suppose	past	Brynhild			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	wear	past	Sigurd	Gunnar's shape		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shape=Source
6	swear	past · perfect	Brynhild			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	wed	to-infinitive	Brynhild not said here			tree rules
8	ride	should	whoever	the flames		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme

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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