The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 5
In Norroway, langsyne, there lived a certain lady, and she had three dochters.
Who acts: Norroway · What happens: live, have · To what, where: certain lady, Norroway, three dochters
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 (Norroway), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Norroway | case |
| 2 | Norroway | Norroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 langsyne | punct |
| 4 | langsyne | langsyne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Norroway | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Norroway | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | expl |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 dochters | nummod |
| 16 | dochters | dochter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a certain lady | Norroway and langsyne; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Norroway | three dochters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dochter=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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