The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 58

The auld wife had washed till she was tired, and then she set to her dochter, and baith washed, and they washed, and they better washed, in hopes of getting the young knight; but a’ they could do they couldna bring out a stain.

Who acts: wife, sarks, hopes, ’ · What happens: wash, be, set, better, get, do · To what, where: auld wife, hopes, young knight, ’, stain

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 (wife, sarks, hopes, ’), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 washed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 washed	aux
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 tired	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tired	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	cop
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 washed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 set	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 washed	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 dochter	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dochter	nmod:poss
17	dochter	dochter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 washed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 washed	cc
20	baith	baith	ADV	_	21 washed	advmod
21	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 washed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 washed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 washed	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 washed	nsubj
25	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 washed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 better	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 better	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 better	nsubj
29	better	better	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
30	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 better	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hopes	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 hopes	case
33	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 washed	obl
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 getting	mark
35	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 hopes	acl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knight	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 knight	amod
38	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 getting	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 bring	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 bring	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 ’	det
42	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bring	nsubj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 ’	acl:relcl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 bring	nsubj
47	couldna	couldna	X	Foreign=Yes	48 bring	dep
48	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 washed	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 bring	compound:prt
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 stain	det
51	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bring	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past · perfect · passive		the auld wife				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	wife				tired property	tree rules
3	set	past	wife			then	to wife's dochter	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	wash	participle					baith property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wash	past	sarks = sark					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	better	present	sarks = sark					tree rules
7	wash	participle	sarks = sark not said here		hopes			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	gerund	hopes not said here	the young knight				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
9	do	could	sarks = sark	a ’ not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent '=Eventuality
10	bring out	infinitive	a ’	a stain				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stain=Patient

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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