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title: She was under a spell, so that she must always sleep in a castle sur… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was under a spell, so that she must always sleep in a castle surrounded by flaming fire; there she must sleep for ever till there came a knight who would ride through the fire and waken her. Who acts: story, knight. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 88

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She was under a spell, so that she must always sleep in a castle surrounded by flaming fire; there she must sleep for ever till there came a knight who would ride through the fire and waken her.

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**Who acts:** story, knight · **What happens:** be, sleep, surround, flame, come, ride · **To what, where:** spell, castle, fire, story

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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 (story, knight), 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:pg540:51:88
# text = She was under a spell, so that she must always sleep in a castle surrounded by flaming fire; there she must sleep for ever till there came a knight who would ride through the fire and waken her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | story |  |  | a spell |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | must | story |  |  | a castle |  | always *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  | a castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flame** | gerund |  | fire |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | must | story |  |  | there |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | a knight |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **ride** | would | a knight |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through fire=Trajectory |
| 8 | **waken** | infinitive | a knight *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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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