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title: And she said he would never see her glad in his hall, never drinking… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said he would never see her glad in his hall, never drinking wine, never playing chess, never embroidering with the golden thread, never speaking words of kindness. Who acts: Brynhild, Sigurd. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree an
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 129

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And she said he would never see her glad in his hall, never drinking wine, never playing chess, never embroidering with the golden thread, never speaking words of kindness.

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**Who acts:** Brynhild, Sigurd · **What happens:** say, not see, not drink, not play, not embroider, not speak · **To what, where:** glad, hall, wine, chess, words, kindness · **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 (Brynhild, Sigurd), 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:pg540:51:129
# text = And she said he would never see her glad in his hall, never drinking wine, never playing chess, never embroidering with the golden thread, never speaking words of kindness.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
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	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
31	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brynhild |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | would | Sigurd | Brynhild's glad |  | Sigurd's hall |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glad=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **drink** | gerund | Brynhild *not said here* | wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **play** | gerund | Brynhild *not said here* | chess |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **embroider** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the golden thread | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thread=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Brynhild *not said here* | words of kindness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | kindness |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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