The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 2
To wilder measures next they turn “The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!”
Who acts: measures · What happens: turn · To what, where: Black
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 (measures), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 measures | case |
| 2 | wilder | wild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 measures | amod |
| 3 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADP | _ | 6 turn | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measures | acl:relcl |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Black | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Black | det |
| 9 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bull | punct |
| 11 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bull | amod |
| 12 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Black | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Norroway | case |
| 14 | Norroway | Norroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bull | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bull | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | measures = measure | the Black | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme black=Result |
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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