--- title: In Norroway, long time ago, there lived a certain lady, and she had… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In Norroway, long time ago, there lived a certain lady, and she had three daughters: The oldest of them said to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." Who acts: Norroway, oldest, Mother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norroway, oldest, Mother), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:16:73 # text = In Norroway, long time ago, there lived a certain lady, and she had three daughters: The oldest of them said to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Norroway Norroway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bannock bannock NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 roast roast VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 collop collop NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | | a certain lady | | Norroway; there | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location | | 2 | **have** | past | Norroway | three daughters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the oldest of daughters | | Norroway's mother | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | a bannock | the oldest of daughters *= old* | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product | | 5 | **roast** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a collop | the oldest of daughters *= old* | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient | | 6 | **go away** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the oldest of daughters *= old* | | | | | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the oldest of daughters *= old* *not said here* | my fortune | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/74/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)