The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 38
In the morning they took the lady into a fine and rich room, and gave her the finest pear she had ever seen, bidding her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal could be in, and that wad get her out o’t.
Who acts: sae, lady, wad · What happens: take, give, see, bid, break, be · To what, where: lady, fine room, finest pear, no, greatest strait
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, lady, wad), 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 | 5 took | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rich | cc |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fine | conj |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pear | det |
| 19 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 pear | amod |
| 20 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 pear | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bidding | punct |
| 26 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gave | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 no | nmod:poss |
| 28 | no | no | NOUN | _ | 26 bidding | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 break | mark |
| 30 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bidding | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 break | obj |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 strait | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 strait | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 strait | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 strait | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 strait | det |
| 37 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 strait | amod |
| 38 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 break | obl |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 mortal | advmod |
| 40 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 strait | amod |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 in | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 in | cop |
| 43 | in | in | ADV | _ | 40 mortal | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 get | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 get | cc |
| 46 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 wad | det |
| 47 | wad | wad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 get | nsubj |
| 48 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 get | obj |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 get | compound:prt |
| 51 | o’t | o't | ADV | _ | 48 get | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sae | the lady | a fine room | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | sae not said here | the finest pear | lady | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pear=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | lady | the finest pear not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pear=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bid | gerund | sae not said here | lady's no | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | to-infinitive | sae not said here | no | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | lady | the greatest strait | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | could | in property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | get out | infinitive | that wad | lady | o't property | tree rules |
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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