The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 34

In the morning, when they brought the bull hame, they took the lady into a fine shining parlor, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in in the world, and that wad bring her o’t.

Who acts: sae, fine, no, lady, wad · What happens: bring, take, shine, give, tell, break · To what, where: bull hame, lady, fine, parlor, beautiful apple, no · 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, fine, no, lady), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 brought	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	nsubj
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hame	det
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hame	compound
10	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 fine	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fine	det
18	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 fine	acl
20	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shining	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 apple	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 apple	amod
27	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 telling	punct
29	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 gave	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 no	nmod:poss
31	no	no	NOUN	_	29 telling	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 break	mark
33	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 telling	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 break	obj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 strait	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 strait	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 strait	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 strait	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 strait	det
40	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 strait	amod
41	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 break	advcl
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 mortal	advmod
43	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 world	amod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 world	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 strait	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bring	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 bring	cc
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 wad	det
52	wad	wad	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bring	nsubj
53	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 bring	obj
55	o’t	o't	ADV	_	53 bring	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	sae	the bull hame					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hame=Theme
2	take	past	sae	the lady		a fine	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into fine=Destination
3	shine	gerund	a fine not said here	parlor					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent parlor=Theme
4	give	past	sae not said here	a beautiful apple	lady				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	sae not said here	lady's no					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent no=Recipient clause=Topic
6	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	lady's no not said here	no					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
7	is	past	lady			the greatest strait			tree rules
8	is	past				the mortal world			tree rules
9	bring	infinitive	that wad		lady			o't property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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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