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title: So there were Sigurd and Brynhild burned together, and the curse of… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So there were Sigurd and Brynhild burned together, and the curse of the dwarf Andvari was fulfilled. Who acts: Sigurd. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 147

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So there were Sigurd and Brynhild burned together, and the curse of the dwarf Andvari was fulfilled.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd · **What happens:** be, burn, fulfil, curse · **To what, where:** curse, dwarf Andvari

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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 (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:pg540:51:147
# text = So there were Sigurd and Brynhild burned together, and the curse of the dwarf Andvari was fulfilled.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | past | Sigurd and Brynhild |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **fulfil** | past · passive |  | the curse of the dwarf Andvari |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **curse** |  |  | the dwarf Andvari |  |  |  |  | nom curse «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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