The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 63

So the lady consented; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sleeping-drink, and given it to the knight, wha drank it, and never wakened till next morning.

Who acts: lady, auld wife, wha · What happens: consent, prepare, give, drink, not waken · To what, where: sleeping drink, drink, knight

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 (lady, auld wife, wha), 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	_	4 consented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consented	nsubj
4	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prepared	cc
7	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	12 prepared	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
9	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prepared	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prepared	aux
12	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 consented	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 drink	det
14	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sleeping	punct
16	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prepared	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 given	cc
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 consented	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 knight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 knight	det
23	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drank	punct
25	wha	wha	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drank	nsubj
26	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consented	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drank	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wakened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wakened	cc
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 wakened	advmod
31	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 drank	conj
32	till	till	ADP	_	34 morning	case
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 morning	amod
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wakened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	participle	the lady					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	past · perfect	the auld wife	a sleeping drink			meanwhile property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
3	give	participle		drink	the knight			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient
4	drink	past	wha	drink				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not waken	participle	wha not said here			morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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