The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 45
And aye they gaed, and on they rade, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down.
Who acts: sae, lady · What happens: ga, come, stop, light down · To what, where: rade, dark glen
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gaed | cc |
| 2 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 gaed | discourse |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gaed | nsubj |
| 4 | gaed | ga | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rade | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rade | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rade | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rade | nsubj |
| 9 | rade | rade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gaed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 glen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 glen | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 glen | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ugsome | cc |
| 18 | ugsome | ugsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dark | conj |
| 19 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stopped | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stopped | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stopped | nsubj |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glen | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lighted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lighted | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lighted | nsubj |
| 28 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 lighted | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ga | past | sae | rade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | sae | a dark glen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | sae | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | light down | participle | the lady | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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