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The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 20

The third dochter says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.”

Who acts: third dochter · What happens: say, mither, bake, roast, be, seek · To what, where: mither, bannock, third dochter, collop, gaun awa, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (third dochter), 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

detamodnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctccomppunctconjobjdetobjpunctccconjobjdetobjpunctmarknsubjconjcompoundobjpunctmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootTheDETthirdADJdochterNOUNsaysVERBtoADPherPRONmitherNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTMitherVERB,PUNCTbakeVERBmePRONaDETbannockNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJroastVERBmePRONaDETcollopNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJIPRON’mVERBgaunNOUNawaNOUN’PUNCTtoPARTseekVERBmyPRONfortuneNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 dochterdet
2thirdthirdADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 dochteramod
3dochterdochterNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysnsubj
4sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_7 mithercase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 mithernmod:poss
7mithermitherNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysobl
8::PUNCT_10 Mitherpunct
9“"PUNCT_10 Mitherpunct
10MithermitherVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saysccomp
11,,PUNCT_12 bakepunct
12bakebakeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 Mitherconj
13meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 bakeobj
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 bannockdet
15bannockbannockNOUNNumber=Sing12 bakeobj
16,,PUNCT_18 roastpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 roastcc
18roastroastVERBVerbForm=Inf10 Mitherconj
19meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 roastobj
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 collopdet
21collopcollopNOUNNumber=Sing18 roastobj
22,,PUNCT_25 ’mpunct
23forforSCONJ_25 ’mmark
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 ’mnsubj
25’mbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 Mitherconj
26gaungaunNOUNNumber=Sing27 awacompound
27awaawaNOUNNumber=Sing25 ’mobj
28’'PUNCT_27 awapunct
29totoPART_30 seekmark
30seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf25 ’madvcl
31mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 fortunenmod:poss
32fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing30 seekobj
33..PUNCT_10 Mitherpunct
34”"PUNCT_10 Mitherpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentthe third dochterwife's mithervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mither=Recipient clause=Topic
2mither in a quoteinfinitivetree rules
3bake in a quoteinfinitivea bannockthe third dochter = dochtervn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product
4roast in a quoteinfinitivea collopthe third dochter = dochtervn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient
5be in a quotepresentthe third dochter = dochtergaun awavn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot awa=Theme
6seek in a quoteto-infinitivethe third dochter = dochter not said heremy fortunevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme

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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