The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 8
The auld wife bade her stay that day, and gang and look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see.
Who acts: bade · What happens: gang, look out, see, stay · 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 (bade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 2 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gang | cc |
| 11 | gang | gang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gang | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 look | compound:prt |
| 15 | o | o | ADV | _ | 13 look | advmod |
| 16 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 door | amod |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gang | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 see | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gang | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | ' bade's back door | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | see | could | bade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stay | bade | nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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