The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 7
Her mither did sae; and the dochter gaed awa’ to an auld witch washerwife and telled her purpose.
Who acts: mither, dochter · What happens: do, ga, telle, purpose · To what, where: sae, awa, purpose
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 (mither, dochter), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mither | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mither | mither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sae | sae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 gaed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gaed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dochter | det |
| 8 | dochter | dochter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gaed | nsubj |
| 9 | gaed | ga | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gaed | obj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 awa | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 washerwife | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 washerwife | det |
| 14 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 washerwife | amod |
| 15 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 washerwife | compound |
| 16 | washerwife | washerwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gaed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 telled | cc |
| 18 | telled | telle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gaed | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 telled | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | o's mither | sae | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sae=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ga | past | the dochter | awa | to a auld witch washerwife | tree rules | |||
| 3 | telle | past | the dochter not said here | mither's purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | purpose | mither | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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