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title: Then Sigurd, in the shape of Gunnar and in his mail, mounted on Gran… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sigurd, in the shape of Gunnar and in his mail, mounted on Grani, and Grani leaped the fence of fire, and Sigurd went in and found Brynhild, but he did not remember her yet, because of the forgetful medicine in the cup of the witch’s wine. Who acts: Sigurd, Gunnar. A sentence of «The Red Fairy 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 110

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Then Sigurd, in the shape of Gunnar and in his mail, mounted on Grani, and Grani leaped the fence of fire, and Sigurd went in and found Brynhild, but he did not remember her yet, because of the forgetful medicine in the cup of the witch’s wine.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd, Gunnar · **What happens:** mount, leap, go in, find, not remember, mail · **To what, where:** Gunnar, Grani, fence, Brynhild

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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 (Sigurd, 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:pg540:51:110
# text = Then Sigurd, in the shape of Gunnar and in his mail, mounted on Grani, and Grani leaped the fence of fire, and Sigurd went in and found Brynhild, but he did not remember her yet, because of the forgetful medicine in the cup of the witch’s wine.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	46	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	parataxis	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’s	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | participle |  | Gunnar and Gunnar's mail *not said here* |  | Grani |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grani=Destination |
| 2 | **leap** | past | Sigurd | the fence of fire |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go in** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | Sigurd *not said here* | Brynhild |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brynhild=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | Sigurd | Brynhild |  |  | yet |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **mail** |  | Gunnar |  |  |  |  |  | nom mail «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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