The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 77
They a’ went to bed again, and the damosel began, as before, singing:
Who acts: sae, damosel · What happens: go, begin, sing · To what, where: bed
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 (sae, damosel), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ’ | det |
| 3 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 damosel | det |
| 11 | damosel | damosel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 before | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 singing | punct |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sae | bed | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the damosel | before property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the damosel not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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