The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 44
Presently they brought hame the bull, set the lady on his back, and awa’ they went.
Who acts: sae · What happens: bring, set, go · To what, where: hame, lady, back
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hame | hame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 16 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | vocative |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 awa | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | sae | hame | presently property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hame=Theme bull=Destination | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | sae not said here | the lady | Bull's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | sae | awa vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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