The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 29
“Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my left lug, and set by your leavings.”
Who acts: you, Black Bull · What happens: eat out, say, drink out, set · 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 (you, Black Bull), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Eat | compound:prt |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 says | mark |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lug | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lug | amod |
| 8 | lug | lug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lug | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bull | det |
| 13 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Bull | amod |
| 14 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drink | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 drink | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Bull | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 drink | compound:prt |
| 20 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 lug | case |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 lug | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lug | nmod:poss |
| 23 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lug | amod |
| 24 | lug | lug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drink | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 leavings | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 leavings | nmod:poss |
| 30 | leavings | leaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Black Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink out in a quote | infinitive | the Black Bull not said here | of my left lug | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of lug=Source | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | by your leavings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by leaving=Destination |
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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