The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 37

They lifted her down and took her in, and sent the bull to the field for the night.

Who acts: sae · What happens: lift down, take, send · To what, where: wad, bull, field

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bull	det
13	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift down	past	sae	wad				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	take	past	sae not said here		wad			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	send	past	sae not said here	the bull		the field	night	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bull=Theme to field=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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