The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 50
O’ercome wi’ joy, she lifted the ae fit and crossed it owre the ither, sae glad was she that her companion was victorious.
Who acts: O’ercome wi, fit, companion · What happens: lift, cross, owre, be · To what, where: ae fit, ither, wad
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 (O’ercome wi, fit, companion), 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 | O’ercome | o'ercome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wi | amod |
| 2 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wi | punct |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wi | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wi | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fit | det |
| 9 | ae | ae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fit | compound |
| 10 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crossed | cc |
| 12 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 owre | nsubj |
| 14 | owre | owre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crossed | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ither | det |
| 16 | ither | ither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owre | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 18 | sae | sae | ADV | _ | 19 glad | advmod |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ither | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 she | cop |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 victorious | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companion | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 victorious | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 victorious | cop |
| 26 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 she | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | O’ercome wi and joy | the ae fit | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | O’ercome wi and joy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | owre | past | fit | the ither glad | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | wad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | wad's companion | victorious property | tree rules |
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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