The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 59

At length they set the stranger damosel to wark; and whenever she began the stains came out pure and clean, but the auld wife made the knight believe it was her dochter had washed the sarks.

Who acts: sarks, ’, auld wife, knight · What happens: set, wark, begin, come out, make, believe · To what, where: stranger damosel, length, stains, 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 (sarks, ’, auld wife, knight), 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 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 damosel	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 damosel	compound
7	damosel	damosel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wark	mark
9	wark	wark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 damosel	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
12	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 began	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stains	det
16	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	obj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 clean	cc
21	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pure	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wife	det
25	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wife	amod
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 knight	det
29	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 washed	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 washed	aux:pass
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dochter	nmod:poss
34	dochter	dochter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 washed	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 washed	aux
36	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 believe	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sarks	det
38	sarks	sark	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 washed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	sarks = sark	the stranger damosel	length		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent damosel=Theme at length=Destination
2	wark	to-infinitive	sarks = sark not said here	the stranger damosel not said here			tree rules
3	begin	past	’ = '	the stains		whenever property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=Eventuality
4	come out	past	sarks = sark not said here			out, pure property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	the auld wife	the knight			tree rules
6	believe	infinitive	the knight not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	wash	past · perfect · passive		stain			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sark=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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