The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 30
Sae she did as he said, and was wonderfully refreshed.
Who acts: Sae, Bull · What happens: do, say, refresh · 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 (Sae, 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 | Sae | Sae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refreshed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 refreshed | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 10 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 11 refreshed | advmod |
| 11 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Sae | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refresh | past · passive | Sae not said here | wonderfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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