The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 22

She bade her look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see.

Who acts: wife · What happens: bade, look out, see · 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 (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 look	nmod:poss
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 look	compound:prt
6	o	o	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
7	’	'	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 door	nmod:poss
9	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bade	past	wife		tree rules
2	look out	infinitive	wife not said here	' wife's back door	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	see	infinitive	wife not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	could	wife		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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