The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 119
He remembered how he had freed Brynhild from the spell, and how she was his own true love, and how he had forgotten and had married another woman, and won Brynhild to be the wife of another man.
Who acts: Sigurd, Brynhild · What happens: remember, free, be, forget, marry, win · To what, where: Sigurd, spell, own true love, woman, Brynhild, wife · 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 (Sigurd, Brynhild), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 freed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 freed | aux |
| 6 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remembered | ccomp |
| 7 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 freed | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spell | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spell | det |
| 10 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 freed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 love | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 love | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 love | amod |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 love | amod |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgotten | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forgotten | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 forgotten | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgotten | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forgotten | aux |
| 25 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 married | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 married | aux |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 forgotten | conj |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 won | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 won | cc |
| 33 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 34 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 won | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 wife | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wife | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wife | det |
| 38 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 won | advcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 man | case |
| 40 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wife | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Sigurd | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | free | past · perfect · passive | Sigurd | the spell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Brynhild | Sigurd's own true love | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | past · perfect | Sigurd | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | marry | past · perfect | Sigurd not said here | another woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 6 | win | past | Brynhild | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brynhild=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | the wife | of another man | tree rules |
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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