The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 57

There she was telled of a gallant young knight that had given in some bluidy sarks to wash, and whaever washed thae sarks was to be his wife.

Who acts: whaever, thae sarks · What happens: telle, give, wash, be · To what, where: wad, gallant young knight, bluidy sarks, wife

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 (whaever, thae sarks), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 telled	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telled	aux:pass
4	telled	telle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 knight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knight	det
7	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telled	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 knight	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 sarks	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 sarks	det
15	bluidy	bluidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sarks	amod
16	sarks	sark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 given	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wash	mark
18	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 washed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 washed	cc
21	whaever	whaever	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 washed	nsubj
22	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telled	conj
23	thae	thae	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sarks	compound
24	sarks	sark	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wife	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wife	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	29 wife	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 wife	cop
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 washed	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	telle	past · passive		wad	there	of a gallant young knight	tree rules
2	give	past · perfect · passive		a gallant young knight	some bluidy sarks		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	wash	to-infinitive					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wash	past	whaever				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	thae sarks	smith's wife			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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