The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 14
Sae they took her into the coach, and galloped aff.
Who acts: Sae · What happens: take, gallop · To what, where: wife, coach, aff
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 (Sae), 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 | Sae | Sae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 coach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coach | det |
| 7 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 galloped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 galloped | cc |
| 10 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | aff | aff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 galloped | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sae | wife | the coach | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into coach=Destination | |||
| 2 | gallop | past | Sae not said here | aff | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aff=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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