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title: So they attired Sigurd in all his golden armour, and built a great p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they attired Sigurd in all his golden armour, and built a great pile of wood on board his ship, and at night laid on it the dead Sigurd and the dead Brynhild, and the good horse, Grani, and set fire to it, and launched the ship. Who acts: men. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 145

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So they attired Sigurd in all his golden armour, and built a great pile of wood on board his ship, and at night laid on it the dead Sigurd and the dead Brynhild, and the good horse, Grani, and set fire to it, and launched the ship.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** attire, build, lay, set, launch · **To what, where:** Sigurd, golden armour, great pile, ship, fire

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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 (men), 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:pg540:51:145
# text = So they attired Sigurd in all his golden armour, and built a great pile of wood on board his ship, and at night laid on it the dead Sigurd and the dead Brynhild, and the good horse, Grani, and set fire to it, and launched the ship.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attired	attire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	board	board	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl:agent	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
46	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attire** | past | men *= man* | Sigurd |  | Sigurd's golden armour |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | a great pile of wood |  | Sigurd's ship |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pile=Theme on ship=Source |
| 3 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  | ship | night |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | fire | ship |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 5 | **launch** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |

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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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