The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 60

So the knight and the eldest dochter were to be married, and the stranger damosel was distracted at the thought of it, for she was deeply in love wi’ him.

Who acts: wife · What happens: marry, distract, be, think · To what, where: knight, stranger damosel, thought, 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 married	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 married	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dochter	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dochter	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 dochter	amod
7	dochter	dochter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 married	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 married	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	aux:pass
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 distracted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 distracted	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 damosel	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 damosel	compound
16	damosel	damosel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 distracted	aux:pass
18	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 married	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 thought	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thought	det
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wi	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	31 wi	case
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wi	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wi	cop
28	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	31 wi	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 wi	case
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wi	compound
31	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	obl
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 wi	punct
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wi	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		the knight and the eldest dochter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	distract	past · passive		the stranger damosel	the thought of stain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	past	wife			for love wi; knight nmod; deeply property	tree rules
4	think			stain			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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