The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 73

But they assured him there was sae; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear.

Who acts: noise, sae, jewelry · What happens: assure, be, resolve, keep, wake, try · To what, where: jewelry

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 (noise, sae, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 assured	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	nsubj
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	iobj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assured	conj
7	sae	sae	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 was	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 resolved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 resolved	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 resolved	nsubj
11	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assured	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 resolved	xcomp
14	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keep	xcomp
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waking	obl:unmarked
17	to	to	PART	_	18 try	mark
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 waking	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 hear	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	assure	past	noise	jewelry			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	be	past	sae		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	resolve	past	jewelry				tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	jewelry not said here				tree rules
5	wake	gerund	jewelry not said here			night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	try	to-infinitive	jewelry not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	hear not said to happen	could	jewelry				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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