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title: Then Gudrun wakened and saw him dead, and she moaned aloud, and Bryn… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gudrun wakened and saw him dead, and she moaned aloud, and Brynhild heard her and laughed; but the kind horse Grani lay down and died of very grief. Who acts: Gudrun, sword, Brynhild, kind horse. 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 143

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Then Gudrun wakened and saw him dead, and she moaned aloud, and Brynhild heard her and laughed; but the kind horse Grani lay down and died of very grief.

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**Who acts:** Gudrun, sword, Brynhild, kind horse · **What happens:** waken, see, moan, hear, laugh, lie down · **To what, where:** Gudrun, sword

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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, sword, Brynhild, kind horse), 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:pg540:51:143
# text = Then Gudrun wakened and saw him dead, and she moaned aloud, and Brynhild heard her and laughed; but the kind horse Grani lay down and died of very grief.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waken** | past | Gudrun |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | Gudrun *not said here* | Gudrun |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **moan** | past | sword |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Brynhild | sword |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | Brynhild *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lie down** | past | the kind horse |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **die** | past | the kind horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of grief | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |

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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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