The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 66
Next day she kentna what to do for grief.
Who acts: kentna · What happens: do
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 (kentna), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kentna | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kentna | nsubj |
| 4 | kentna | kentna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 grief | case |
| 9 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | kentna | for grief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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