The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 46
Says the bull to her: “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, stay, gang, fight · To what, where: bull, deil · 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 (I), 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Says | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bull | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Says | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Here | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stay | advmod |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 maun | compound |
| 10 | maun | maun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Here | nsubj |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Says | ccomp |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 gang | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gang | nsubj |
| 14 | gang | gang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fight | cc |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gang | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deil | det |
| 18 | deil | deil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the bull | to lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | present | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gang in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | present | I not said here | the deil | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deil=Co-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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