The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 23
She did sae; and when she came back said she saw nocht.
Who acts: wife · What happens: do, say, see · To what, where: sae, nocht · 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sae | sae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 said | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | nocht | nocht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | wife | sae | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sae=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | wife | nocht | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nocht=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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