More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 8
A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's _Arcadia_, as also in the _Complaynt of Scotland_, 1548.
Who acts: reference · What happens: occur · To what, where: _
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reference), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reference | det |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Bull | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bull | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bull | punct |
| 6 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bull | amod |
| 7 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 8 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 Norroway | case |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Norroway | punct |
| 10 | Norroway | Norroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bull | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Norroway | punct |
| 12 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 _ | case |
| 14 | Sidney | Sidney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 _ | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sidney | case |
| 16 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | obl |
| 17 | Arcadia | Arcadia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 _ | flat |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 occurs | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Complaynt | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Complaynt | case |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 Complaynt | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Complaynt | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Complaynt | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Complaynt | punct |
| 25 | Complaynt | Complaynt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Scotland | case |
| 27 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Complaynt | nmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Complaynt | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 1548 | punct |
| 30 | 1548 | 1548 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Complaynt | list |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | a reference to the Black Bull of Norroway | Sidney's _ | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in _=Location |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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