The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 27

On hearing this she was next to distracted wi’ grief and terror; but she was lifted up and set on his back, and awa’ they went.

Who acts: wife, grief · What happens: hear, be, distract, lift up, set, go · To what, where: this, wife, back

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, grief), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lifted	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 next	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 next	cop
6	next	next	ADV	_	2 hearing	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wi	case
8	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wi	amod
9	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 next	obl
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 wi	punct
11	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wi	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 terror	cc
13	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grief	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lifted	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 lifted	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lifted	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lifted	aux:pass
18	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 lifted	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
21	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lifted	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
27	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	vocative
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 awa	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lifted	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	wife			to distracted wi and grief and terror; next property	tree rules
3	distract	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	lift up	past · passive		wife			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	set	participle			Bull's back		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on back=Destination
6	go	past	grief			awa vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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