The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 80
And she telled him a’ that had befa’en her, and he telled her a’ that had happened to him.
Who acts: damosel, ’, jewelry · What happens: telle, befa'en, happen · To what, where: jewelry, damosel
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), 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 | _ | 3 telled | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 telled | nsubj |
| 3 | telled | telle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 telled | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ’ | det |
| 6 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telled | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 befa’en | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 befa’en | aux |
| 9 | befa’en | befa'en | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ’ | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 befa’en | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 telled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 telled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 telled | nsubj |
| 14 | telled | telle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 telled | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 telled | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ’ | det |
| 17 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 telled | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 ’ | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 happened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 telled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | telle | past | damosel | jewelry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | befa'en | past · perfect | a ’ | damosel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | telle | past | jewelry | damosel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | a ’ | jewelry | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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