The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 113

Then he rode out again, and he and Gunnar changed shapes, and each was himself again, and they went home to the witch Queen’s, and Sigurd gave the dwarf’s ring to his wife, Gudrun.

Who acts: Sigurd, birds · What happens: ride out, change, be, go, give · To what, where: shapes, Sigurd, ring, wife

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, birds), 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	3 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 rode	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 changed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 changed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 changed	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Gunnar	cc
10	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 he	conj
11	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
12	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 changed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 himself	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 himself	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 himself	det
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 himself	cop
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 rode	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 witch	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 witch	appos
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Queen	case
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
31	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dwarf	det
34	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ring	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 dwarf	case
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 wife	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Gudrun	punct
41	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 wife	appos
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	past	Sigurd			then; again; again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	change	past	Sigurd	shapes				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
3	is a	past		Sigurd				tree rules
4	go	past	birds = bird				to the witch; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
5	give	past	Sigurd	the dwarf's ring	Sigurd's wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to wife=Recipient

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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