The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 81
And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned.
Who acts: jewelry · What happens: cause, burn · To what, where: auld washerwife
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 (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 caused | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 washerwife | det |
| 5 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 washerwife | amod |
| 6 | washerwife | washerwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dochter | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dochter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dochter | dochter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 washerwife | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 burned | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 burned | aux:pass |
| 12 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dochter | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | jewelry | the auld washerwife and damosel's dochter | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition washerwife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive · passive | jewelry not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V» |
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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