The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 1

And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue, “Of Scotland’s luve and lee.”

Who acts: song, many, game · What happens: sung, tune, sing · To what, where: hunting song

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (song, many, game), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 many	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tuned	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	compound
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 many	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sung	nsubj
7	sung	sung	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 song	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 song	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 song	cc
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 game	case
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 song	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glee	cc
14	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 game	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tuned	punct
16	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 tuned	advmod
17	tuned	tune	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 strains	case
19	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 strains	amod
20	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tuned	obl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tongue	nmod:poss
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strains	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 luve	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 luve	punct
25	Of	of	ADP	_	28 luve	case
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 luve	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Scotland	case
28	luve	luve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tuned	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lee	cc
30	lee	lee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 luve	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 luve	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 luve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sung	present	song	a hunting song and song of game and glee not said here			tree rules
2	tune	past	many		then	to plaintive strains song's tongue	tree rules
3	sing		game and glee				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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