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title: “It is called ‘Gunnfjoder,’ the ‘Battle Plume,’” answered Helga, “an… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is called ‘Gunnfjoder,’ the ‘Battle Plume,’” answered Helga, “and ‘Gullfaxi’ means ‘Golden Mane.’ Who acts: Helga, Gullfaxi. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 120

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“It is called ‘Gunnfjoder,’ the ‘Battle Plume,’” answered Helga, “and ‘Gullfaxi’ means ‘Golden Mane.’

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**Who acts:** Helga, Gullfaxi · **What happens:** call, answer, mean · **To what, where:** sword, Golden Mane · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, Gullfaxi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:33:120
# text = “It is called ‘Gunnfjoder,’ the ‘Battle Plume,’” answered Helga, “and ‘Gullfaxi’ means ‘Golden Mane.’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Gunnfjoder	Gunnfjoder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Plume	Plume	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Gullfaxi	Gullfaxi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Mane	Mane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Gullfaxi | Golden Mane |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Topic |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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