--- title: But, dear Brynhild, live and be comforted, and love Gunnar thy husba… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But, dear Brynhild, live and be comforted, and love Gunnar thy husband, and I will give thee all the gold, the treasure of the dragon Fafnir.’ Who acts: dear Brynhild, love, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Story of Sigurd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/) / 135 # The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 135 But, dear Brynhild, live and be comforted, and love Gunnar thy husband, and I will give thee all the gold, the treasure of the dragon Fafnir.’ **Who acts:** dear Brynhild, love, I · **What happens:** live, comfort, husband, give, treasure · **To what, where:** gold, thee, dragon 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 (dear Brynhild, love, I), 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:pg540:51:135 # text = But, dear Brynhild, live and be comforted, and love Gunnar thy husband, and I will give thee all the gold, the treasure of the dragon Fafnir.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Brynhild brynhild NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 Gunnar Gunnar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 iobj _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 Fafnir Fafnir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | infinitive | dear Brynhild | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **comfort** | infinitive · passive | dear Brynhild *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **husband** | | love | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | future | I | all gold | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient gold=Theme | | 5 | **treasure** | | | the dragon | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/136/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Sigurd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/)