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The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 6

The auldest o’ them said to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.”

Who acts: auldest o · What happens: say, mither, bake, roast, be, seek · To what, where: mither, bannock, auldest o, collop, gaun awa, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (auldest o), 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

detamodnsubjpunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctccomppunctconjobjdetobjpunctccparataxisobjdetobjpunctmarknsubjconjcompoundobjpunctmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootTheDETauldestADJoNOUN’PUNCTthemPRONsaidVERBtoADPherPRONmitherNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTMitherVERB,PUNCTbakeVERBmePRONaDETbannockNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJroastVERBmePRONaDETcollopNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJIPRON’mVERBgaunNOUNawaNOUN’PUNCTtoPARTseekVERBmyPRONfortuneNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 odet
2auldestauldADJDegree=Sup3 oamod
3ooNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
4’'PUNCT_3 opunct
5themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 saidnsubj
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7totoADP_9 mithercase
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 mithernmod:poss
9mithermitherNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidobl
10::PUNCT_12 Mitherpunct
11“"PUNCT_12 Mitherpunct
12MithermitherVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
13,,PUNCT_14 bakepunct
14bakebakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 Mitherconj
15meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 bakeobj
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 bannockdet
17bannockbannockNOUNNumber=Sing14 bakeobj
18,,PUNCT_20 roastpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 roastcc
20roastroastVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin12 Mitherparataxis
21meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 roastobj
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 collopdet
23collopcollopNOUNNumber=Sing20 roastobj
24,,PUNCT_27 ’mpunct
25forforSCONJ_27 ’mmark
26IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 ’mnsubj
27’mbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 roastconj
28gaungaunNOUNNumber=Sing29 awacompound
29awaawaNOUNNumber=Sing27 ’mobj
30’'PUNCT_29 awapunct
31totoPART_32 seekmark
32seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf27 ’madvcl
33mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 fortunenmod:poss
34fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing32 seekobj
35..PUNCT_12 Mitherpunct
36”"PUNCT_12 Mitherpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe auldest oo's mithervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mither=Recipient clause=Topic
2mither in a quoteinfinitivetree rules
3bake in a quoteinfinitivea bannockthe auldest o = ovn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product
4roast in a quoteinfinitivea collopthe auldest o = ovn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient
5be in a quotepresentthe auldest o = ogaun awavn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot awa=Theme
6seek in a quoteto-infinitivethe auldest o = o not said heremy fortunevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme

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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