The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 47
Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit till I come back, else I’ll never find ye again.
Who acts: I · What happens: move, come back, not find · To what, where: hand, ye
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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 yoursel | nsubj |
| 2 | maun | maun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yoursel | compound |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yoursel | compound |
| 4 | yoursel | yoursel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yoursel | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stane | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stane | det |
| 8 | stane | stane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yoursel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 move | cc |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 yoursel | parataxis |
| 12 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 move | obj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 fit | cc |
| 15 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 move | advcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 find | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 23 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 move | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 find | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yoursel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | infinitive | neither hand nor fit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come back | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not find | present | I | ye | again | else property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Topic |
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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