The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 68

Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight’s chamber; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink, and he again sleepit till morning.

Who acts: Wi ’ jewels, auld wife, knight · What happens: bargain, be, gi, sleepit · To what, where: second night, chamber, 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 (Wi ’ jewels, auld wife, knight), 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	Wi	Wi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jewels	compound
2	’	'	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	4 jewels	amod
3	thae	thae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ’	goeswith
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bargained	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bargained	nsubj
6	bargained	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 permission	case
8	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bargained	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	13 night	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 night	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 permission	appos
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 chamber	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 knight	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knight	amod
17	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chamber	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 knight	case
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gied	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 gied	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wife	det
23	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wife	amod
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gied	nsubj
25	gied	gi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bargained	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gied	obj
27	anither	anither	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 drink	det
28	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drink	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sleeping	punct
30	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gied	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sleepit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sleepit	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sleepit	nsubj
34	again	again	ADV	_	35 sleepit	advmod
35	sleepit	sleepit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bargained	obl
36	till	till	ADP	_	37 morning	case
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sleepit	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bargained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bargain	past	Wi ’ jewels				for permission	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		a second night	the young knight's chamber			tree rules
3	gi	past	the auld wife	knight				tree rules
4	sleepit		knight			again; morning		tree rules

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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