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title: Now Gudrun fell in love with Sigurd, but he was always talking of Br… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Gudrun fell in love with Sigurd, but he was always talking of Brynhild, how beautiful she was and how dear. Who acts: Gudrun, name. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 103

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Now Gudrun fell in love with Sigurd, but he was always talking of Brynhild, how beautiful she was and how dear.

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**Who acts:** Gudrun, name · **What happens:** fall, talk, be · **To what, where:** love

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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, name), 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:pg540:51:103
# text = Now Gudrun fell in love with Sigurd, but he was always talking of Brynhild, how beautiful she was and how dear.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Gudrun |  |  | love | now | with Sigurd | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | past · progressive | Gudrun |  |  |  |  | of Brynhild; always *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | name |  |  |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |

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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 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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