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title: Then he rode out again, and he and Gunnar changed shapes, and each w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he rode out again, and he and Gunnar changed shapes, and each was himself again, and they went home to the witch Queen’s, and Sigurd gave the dwarf’s ring to his wife, Gudrun. Who acts: Sigurd, birds. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 113

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Then he rode out again, and he and Gunnar changed shapes, and each was himself again, and they went home to the witch Queen’s, and Sigurd gave the dwarf’s ring to his wife, Gudrun.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd, birds · **What happens:** ride out, change, be, go, give · **To what, where:** shapes, Sigurd, ring, wife

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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, birds), 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:pg540:51:113
# text = Then he rode out again, and he and Gunnar changed shapes, and each was himself again, and they went home to the witch Queen’s, and Sigurd gave the dwarf’s ring to his wife, Gudrun.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride out** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  | then; again; again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past | Sigurd | shapes |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | to the witch; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **give** | past | Sigurd | the dwarf's ring | Sigurd's wife |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to wife=Recipient |

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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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