The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 71

But that day when he was out at the hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber.

Who acts: jewelry, somebody, noise · What happens: be, ask, hear · To what, where: hunting, jewelry, moaning yon, bedchamber

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 (jewelry, somebody, noise), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 out	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 out	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 out	cop
7	out	out	ADV	_	3 day	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 hunting	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunting	det
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 out	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 heard	obj
16	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 yon	cc
18	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 yon	compound
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 yon	cop
20	yon	yon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 noise	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 night	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl:unmarked
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 bedchamber	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bedchamber	nmod:poss
28	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	jewelry			the hunting		out property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	somebody		jewelry		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past	noise and moaning yon not said here	moaning yon					tree rules
4	hear	past	noise and moaning yon			jewelry's bedchamber	night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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