The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 143

Then Gudrun wakened and saw him dead, and she moaned aloud, and Brynhild heard her and laughed; but the kind horse Grani lay down and died of very grief.

Who acts: Gudrun, sword, Brynhild, kind horse · What happens: waken, see, moan, hear, laugh, lie down · To what, where: Gudrun, sword

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, sword, Brynhild, kind horse), 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 wakened	advmod
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wakened	nsubj
3	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wakened	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moaned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moaned	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 moaned	nsubj
11	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wakened	conj
12	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	11 moaned	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
15	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 moaned	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lay	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 horse	amod
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
25	Grani	Grani	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 horse	appos
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wakened	parataxis
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 lay	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 died	cc
29	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lay	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 grief	case
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 grief	advmod
32	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 died	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	waken	past	Gudrun		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	Gudrun not said here	Gudrun		dead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	moan	past	sword			aloud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	Brynhild	sword			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	laugh	past	Brynhild not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lie down	past	the kind horse			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	die	past	the kind horse not said here			of grief	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer

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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