The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 128

Next day she told Gunnar, her husband, that he was a coward and a liar, for he had never ridden the flame, but had sent Sigurd to do it for him, and pretended that he had done it himself.

Who acts: Brynhild, Gunnar · What happens: tell, be, not ride, send, do, pretend · To what, where: Gunnar, coward, flame, Sigurd · 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, 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 husband	punct
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Gunnar	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coward	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 coward	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 coward	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coward	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coward	det
14	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 liar	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 liar	det
17	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coward	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ridden	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 ridden	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ridden	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ridden	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 ridden	advmod
23	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flame	det
25	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ridden	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sent	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
30	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sent	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pretended	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pretended	cc
38	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 done	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 done	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 done	aux
42	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 pretended	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 done	obj
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 done	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Brynhild		Gunnar	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gunnar=Recipient
2	is a	past	Gunnar	a coward and a liar				tree rules
3	not ride	past · perfect	Gunnar	the flame				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme
4	send	past · perfect		Sigurd				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive		flame			for Sigurd	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	pretend	past	Brynhild not said here					tree rules
7	do	past · perfect	Gunnar	flame			Sigurd obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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