The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 28
Aye they traveled, and on they traveled, till the lady grew faint wi’ hunger.
Who acts: grief, lady, faint wi · What happens: travel, grow, hunger · To what, where: hunger
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 (grief, lady, faint wi), 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 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 3 traveled | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 traveled | nsubj |
| 3 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 traveled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 traveled | cc |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 traveled | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 traveled | nsubj |
| 8 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 traveled | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 grew | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 traveled | conj |
| 14 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wi | amod |
| 15 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 wi | case |
| 17 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | grief | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | past | grief | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the lady | faint wi's hunger | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunger=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunger | faint wi | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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