The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 48

And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.”

Who acts: everything, I, ’ things, maun · What happens: turn, beate, hae, conquer · To what, where: deil, me

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 (everything, I, ’ things, maun), 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	_	11 beated	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 turns	mark
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 turns	nsubj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 ye	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 ye	advmod
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 everything	nmod
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beated	advcl
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turns	xcomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 beated	nsubj
10	hae	hae	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beated	aux
11	beated	beate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deil	det
13	deil	deil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beated	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hae	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 turn	cc
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 turn	aux
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 things	det
18	’	'	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	nsubj
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hae	advcl
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 turn	xcomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hae	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hae	aux
24	hae	hae	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 beated	ccomp
25	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hae	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 conquered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 hae	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 hae	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn a condition, not said to happen	present	everything		blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	beate	present	I	the deil		tree rules
3	turn	should	a ’ things		red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	hae	future	maun			tree rules
5	conquer	past	maun not said here	me		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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