The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 49

She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned blue.

Who acts: wad · What happens: set down, turn · To what, where: hersel, stane

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 (wad), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hersel	hersel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hersel	punct
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stane	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stane	det
8	stane	stane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	17 ’	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 by	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 by	cc
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 by	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 ’	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ’	det
17	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ’	nmod
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 turned	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set down	past	wad	hersel		the stane		down property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hersel=Theme on stane=Destination
2	turn	past	wad not said here					by a ’ round wad; blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by '=Trajectory

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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