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title: Then Gunnar tried Sigurd’s horse Grani, but he would not move with G… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gunnar tried Sigurd’s horse Grani, but he would not move with Gunnar on his back. Who acts: Gunnar. 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 108

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Then Gunnar tried Sigurd’s horse Grani, but he would not move with Gunnar on his back.

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**Who acts:** Gunnar · **What happens:** try, not move · **To what, where:** horse, back

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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 (Gunnar), 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:pg540:51:108
# text = Then Gunnar tried Sigurd’s horse Grani, but he would not move with Gunnar on his back.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	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	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Gunnar | Sigurd's horse |  |  | then |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **move** | would | Gunnar |  |  | Gunnar's back |  | with Gunnar | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |

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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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