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title: Then Gudrun was very angry, and said that it was Sigurd, not Gunnar,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gudrun was very angry, and said that it was Sigurd, not Gunnar, who had ridden the flame, and had received from Brynhild that fatal ring, the ring of the dwarf Andvari. Who acts: Gudrun, face, Gunnar. 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 125

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Then Gudrun was very angry, and said that it was Sigurd, not Gunnar, who had ridden the flame, and had received from Brynhild that fatal ring, the ring of the dwarf Andvari.

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**Who acts:** Gudrun, face, Gunnar · **What happens:** be, say, ride, receive · **To what, where:** Sigurd, flame, Brynhild · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gudrun, face, 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:pg540:51:125
# text = Then Gudrun was very angry, and said that it was Sigurd, not Gunnar, who had ridden the flame, and had received from Brynhild that fatal ring, the ring of the dwarf Andvari.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Brynhild	brynhild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gudrun |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | face | Sigurd and Gunnar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | past · perfect | Gunnar | the flame |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** | past · perfect |  |  |  | Brynhild |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from brynhild=Source |

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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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