--- title: He remembered how he had freed Brynhild from the spell, and how she… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He remembered how he had freed Brynhild from the spell, and how she was his own true love, and how he had forgotten and had married another woman, and won Brynhild to be the wife of another man. Who acts: Sigurd, Brynhild. 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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 (Sigurd, Brynhild), 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:pg540:51:119 # text = He remembered how he had freed Brynhild from the spell, and how she was his own true love, and how he had forgotten and had married another woman, and won Brynhild to be the wife of another man. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 freed free VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 Brynhild Brynhild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 Brynhild Brynhild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | Sigurd | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **free** | past · perfect · passive | | Sigurd | | the spell | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | Brynhild | Sigurd's own true love | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **forget** | past · perfect | Sigurd | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **marry** | past · perfect | Sigurd *not said here* | another woman | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | | 6 | **win** | past | | Brynhild | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brynhild=Eventuality | | 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the wife | | | | of another man | tree rules | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/120/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Sigurd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/)