The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 53
At last she rase and gaed awa’, she kedna whaur till.
Who acts: wad · What happens: rase, ga, till · To what, where: last, awa
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rase | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rase | nsubj |
| 4 | rase | rase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gaed | cc |
| 6 | gaed | ga | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rase | conj |
| 7 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gaed | obj |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 gaed | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 till | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 till | nsubj |
| 11 | kedna | kedna | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 till | dep |
| 12 | whaur | whaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 till | compound |
| 13 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rase | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rase | infinitive | wad | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ga | past | wad not said here | awa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | till | wad | 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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