The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 70
“Seven lang years I served for thee,” &c. Still he sleepit, and she nearly lost hope a’thegither.
Who acts: damosel, jewelry · What happens: serve, sleepit, lose · To what, where: hope a’thegither
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, jewelry), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | lang | lang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | compound |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 served | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 served | nsubj |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 served | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
| 11 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 12 c. | cc |
| 12 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 served | conj |
| 13 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 15 sleepit | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sleepit | nsubj |
| 15 | sleepit | sleepit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 c. | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lost | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 lost | advmod |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 served | conj |
| 21 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 a’thegither | compound |
| 22 | a’thegither | a'thegither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | past | damosel | year | for thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sleepit | jewelry | still | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | damosel | hope a’thegither | nearly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a'thegither=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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