The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 74

That being the third night, and the damosel being between hope and despair, she brak her plum, and it held far the richest jewelry of the three.

Who acts: That, damosel, plum · What happens: be, brak, hold · To what, where: third night, plum, richest 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 (That, damosel, plum), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 night	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brak	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hope	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hope	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 damosel	det
9	damosel	damosel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hope	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hope	cop
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 hope	case
12	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 despair	cc
14	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hope	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brak	nsubj
17	brak	brak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 plum	nmod:poss
19	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brak	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brak	conj
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 jewelry	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 jewelry	det
26	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 jewelry	amod
27	jewelry	jewelry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 three	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 three	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 jewelry	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 brak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	That	the third night		tree rules
2	is	gerund	the damosel		between hope and despair	tree rules
3	brak	past	damosel	damosel's plum		tree rules
4	hold	past	plum	the richest jewelry of the three		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewelry=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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