The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 64

The lee-lang night ther damosel sabbed and sang:

Who acts: damosel · What happens: sabb, sing

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 (damosel), 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	5 night	det
2	lee	lee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 lee	punct
4	lang	lang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sabbed	obl:unmarked
6	ther	ther	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 damosel	nmod:poss
7	damosel	damosel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sabbed	nsubj
8	sabbed	sabb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sang	cc
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sabbed	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sabbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sabb	past	ther's damosel				night		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	ther's damosel not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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