The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 31
And lang they gaed, and sair they rade, till they came in sight o’ a very big and bonny castle.
Who acts: lang, sae · What happens: ga, sair, come · To what, where: sae, sight
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 (lang, sae), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gaed | cc |
| 2 | lang | lang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaed | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gaed | nsubj |
| 4 | gaed | ga | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sair | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sair | cc |
| 7 | sair | sair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gaed | ccomp |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sair | obj |
| 9 | rade | rade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sair | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sair | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 castle | case |
| 17 | ’ | ' | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 castle | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 castle | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bonny | cc |
| 22 | bonny | bonny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 big | conj |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ga | past | lang | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sair | infinitive | lang not said here | sae | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | sae | sight | of ' big castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of castle=Initial_Location |
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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