The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 42

They lifted her down, 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: brither, 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
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	brither				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	take	past	sae not said here		brither			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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