The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 54
On she wandered till she came to a great hill o’ glass, that she tried a’ she could to climb, bat wasna able.
Who acts: wad · What happens: wander, come, try, climb, be · To what, where: great hill, a, that
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3962): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hill | amod |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | o | of | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 o | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hill | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 climb | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hill | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tried | obj |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 a | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 a | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 climb | mark |
| 23 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 able | punct |
| 25 | bat | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 able | cc |
| 26 | wasna | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 able | cop |
| 27 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tried | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | wad | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | wad | a great hill of glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | try | past | wad | a | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | wad not said here | that | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | wad not said here | able 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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