The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 43
In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of a’, and gied her a plum, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that wad get her out o’t.
Who acts: sae, no, brither, wad · What happens: take, gi, tell, break, be, get out · To what, where: brither, room, 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, no, brither, 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 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 finest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 finest | det |
| 12 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 took | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ’ | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ’ | det |
| 15 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finest | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gied | cc |
| 18 | gied | gi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gied | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plum | det |
| 21 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gied | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gied | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 no | nmod:poss |
| 25 | no | no | NOUN | _ | 23 telling | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 break | mark |
| 27 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 telling | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 break | obj |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 in | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 in | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 in | cop |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 39 in | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mortal | det |
| 34 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 mortal | amod |
| 35 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mortal | compound |
| 36 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 in | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 in | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 in | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 break | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 get | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 get | cc |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 wad | det |
| 43 | wad | wad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 get | nsubj |
| 44 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 get | obj |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 get | compound:prt |
| 47 | o’t | o't | ADV | _ | 44 get | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sae | brither | a room | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | gi | past | sae not said here | brither | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | sae not said here | brither's no | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent no=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | brither's no not said here | no | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | could · past | brither | in property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get out | infinitive | that wad | brither | 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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