--- title: So one day Gudrun’s witch mother put poppy and forgetful drugs in a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So one day Gudrun’s witch mother put poppy and forgetful drugs in a magical cup, and bade Sigurd drink to her health, and he drank, and instantly he forgot poor Brynhild and he loved Gudrun, and they were married with great rejoicings. Who acts: witch mother, bade. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch mother, bade), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:51:104 # text = So one day Gudrun’s witch mother put poppy and forgetful drugs in a magical cup, and bade Sigurd drink to her health, and he drank, and instantly he forgot poor Brynhild and he loved Gudrun, and they were married with great rejoicings. 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Gudrun Gudrun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 poppy poppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 forgetful forgetful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 magical magical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Sigurd sigurd AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Brynhild Brynhild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 Gudrun Gudrun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 rejoicings rejoicing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | infinitive | Gudrun's witch mother | poppy and forgetful drugs | | a magical cup | day | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poppy=Theme in cup=Destination | | 2 | **drink** | | bade | | | | | to mother's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | past | bade | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **forget** | past | bade | poor Brynhild | | | | instantly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | past | bade | Gudrun | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gudrun=Stimulus | | 6 | **marry** | past · passive | | poppy | | | | with great rejoicings | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/105/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Sigurd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/)