The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 16

Her mither did sae; and awa’ she gaed to the auld wife, as her sister had dune.

Who acts: mither, sister · What happens: do, ga, have · To what, where: sae, awa, dune

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 (mither, sister), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mither	nmod:poss
2	mither	mither	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sae	sae	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 gaed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 awa	cc
7	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gaed	obl
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 awa	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gaed	nsubj
10	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 wife	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
13	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gaed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gaed	conj
20	dune	dune	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	wife's mither	sae		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sae=Eventuality
2	ga	past	mither	awa	to the auld wife	tree rules
3	have	past	wife's sister	dune		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dune=Patient

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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