The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 126

Then Brynhild saw the ring which Sigurd had given to Gudrun, and she knew it and knew all, and she turned as pale as a dead woman, and went home.

Who acts: Brynhild, ring · What happens: see, give, know, turn, go · To what, where: ring, Gudrun, all

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, ring), 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 saw	advmod
2	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 given	nsubj
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ring	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Gudrun	case
11	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knew	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 knew	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 pale	advmod
25	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 turned	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 woman	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pale	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Brynhild	the ring		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
2	give	past · perfect	the ring		Gudrun			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gudrun=Recipient
3	know	past	Brynhild	ring				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	know	past	Brynhild not said here	all				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
5	turn	past	Brynhild				pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	Brynhild not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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