The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 123

For one day, when Brynhild and Gudrun were bathing, Brynhild waded farthest out into the river, and said she did that to show she was Gudrun’s superior.

Who acts: Brynhild · What happens: be, wade, say, do, show · To what, where: Brynhild bathing, river, that, superior · 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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waded	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bathing	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bathing	advmod
6	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bathing	compound
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Gudrun	cc
8	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brynhild	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bathing	cop
10	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
12	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 waded	nsubj
13	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 out	amod
15	out	out	ADV	_	13 waded	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waded	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waded	conj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 did	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 show	mark
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 did	advcl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 superior	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 superior	cop
29	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 superior	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Gudrun	case
31	superior	superior	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 waded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Brynhild bathing				tree rules
2	wade	past	Brynhild		the river	day	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Brynhild not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past	Brynhild	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	show	to-infinitive	Brynhild not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	Brynhild	Gudrun's superior				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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