The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 41
“We maun be yonder the night,” says the bull, “for my young brither lives yonder”; and they were there directly.
Who acts: We, bull, sae · What happens: maun, be, say, live · To what, where: night · 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 (We, bull, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 maun | nsubj |
| 3 | maun | maun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 night | cop |
| 5 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 7 night | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maun | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 maun | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 maun | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bull | det |
| 12 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brither | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brither | nmod:poss |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brither | amod |
| 18 | brither | brither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | conj |
| 20 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 19 lives | advmod |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 there | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 there | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 says | ccomp |
| 27 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maun in a quote | We | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | the night | yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the bull not said here | for my young brither; yonder property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | sae | directly, there 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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