The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 3
Sudden the tapers cease to burn, The minstrels cease to play.
Who acts: Sudden tapers, minstrels · What happens: cease, burn, play
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 (Sudden tapers, minstrels), 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 | Sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tapers | amod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tapers | det |
| 3 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cease | nsubj |
| 4 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 burn | mark |
| 6 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cease | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cease | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minstrels | det |
| 9 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cease | nsubj |
| 10 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cease | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 play | mark |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cease | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | present | the Sudden tapers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive | the Sudden tapers not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cease | present | the minstrels | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | the minstrels not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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