The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 69

A’ night she kept sighing and singing as before:

Who acts: damosel · What happens: keep, sigh, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	’	'	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 singing	cc
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sighing	conj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 before	advmod
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 singing	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	damosel	night		tree rules
2	sigh	gerund	damosel not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	damosel not said here		before property	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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