The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 125

Then Gudrun was very angry, and said that it was Sigurd, not Gunnar, who had ridden the flame, and had received from Brynhild that fatal ring, the ring of the dwarf Andvari.

Who acts: Gudrun, face, Gunnar · What happens: be, say, ride, receive · To what, where: Sigurd, flame, Brynhild · 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 (Gudrun, face, Gunnar), 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	5 angry	advmod
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 Sigurd	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Sigurd	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Sigurd	cop
12	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Gunnar	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 Gunnar	advmod
15	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sigurd	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ridden	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ridden	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ridden	aux
19	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 Gunnar	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flame	det
21	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ridden	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 received	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 received	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 received	aux
25	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Brynhild	case
27	Brynhild	brynhild	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ring	mark
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ring	amod
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ring	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ring	det
33	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Andvari	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Andvari	det
36	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Andvari	amod
37	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ring	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gudrun			then	angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	face	Sigurd and Gunnar				tree rules
4	ride	past · perfect	Gunnar	the flame				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme
5	receive	past · perfect			Brynhild			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from brynhild=Source

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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