The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 76

And when she gaed awa’ for some honey to sweeten it wi’, he poured out the drink, and sae made the auld wife think he had drunk it.

Who acts: damosel, jewelry, auld wife · What happens: ga, sweeten, pour out, make, think, drink · To what, where: awa, drink · Speech: someone speaks here

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, auld wife), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 poured	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gaed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gaed	nsubj
4	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 poured	advcl
5	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gaed	obj
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 awa	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 honey	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 honey	det
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gaed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sweeten	mark
11	sweeten	sweeten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gaed	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sweeten	obj
13	wi	wi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 sweeten	obj
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 wi	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gaed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 poured	nsubj
17	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 poured	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drink	det
20	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poured	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
23	sae	sae	ADV	_	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 poured	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
26	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	amod
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 made	xcomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drunk	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drunk	aux
31	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 think	ccomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drunk	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ga	past	damosel	awa	for some honey	tree rules
2	sweeten	to-infinitive	damosel not said here	awa		tree rules
3	pour out	past	jewelry	the drink		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
4	make	past				tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	the auld wife			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	drink	past · perfect	jewelry	drink		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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