The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 56
At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the auld washerwife’s habitation.
Who acts: wad · What happens: get, chance, come · To what, where: iron shoon, end, habitation
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 | _ | 5 end | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 end | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 3 years | case |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoon | nmod:poss |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoon | compound |
| 10 | shoon | shoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clamb | punct |
| 12 | clamb | clamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoon | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 14 | glassy | glassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hill | amod |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chanced | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 chanced | cc |
| 18 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 got | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 chanced | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 habitation | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 washerwife | det |
| 23 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 washerwife | amod |
| 24 | washerwife | washerwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 washerwife | case |
| 26 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | wad | wad's iron shoon and clamb | at seven years's end | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent shoon=Beneficiary hill=Theme | |||
| 2 | chance | participle | wad not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | wad not said here | the auld washerwife's habitation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to habitation=Initial_Location |
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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