The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 114

And Brynhild went to her father, and said that a King had come called Gunnar, and had ridden the fire, and she must marry him.

Who acts: Brynhild, King · What happens: go, say, come, call, ride, marry · To what, where: fire, Gunnar · 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, King), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 come	xcomp
16	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ridden	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ridden	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ridden	aux
20	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ridden	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 marry	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 marry	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	aux
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ridden	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Brynhild		to Brynhild's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	a King			tree rules
4	call	participle	a King not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ride	past · perfect		the fire		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
6	marry	must	Brynhild	Gunnar		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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