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title: And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue, “Of Scotland’s luve and lee.” Who acts: song, many, game. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 1

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And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue, “Of Scotland’s luve and lee.”

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**Who acts:** song, many, game · **What happens:** sung, tune, sing · **To what, where:** hunting song

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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 (song, many, game), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:55:1
# text = And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue, “Of Scotland’s luve and lee.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sung	sung	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	tuned	tune	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	strains	strain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	luve	luve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lee	lee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sung** | present | song | a hunting song and song of game and glee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tune** | past | many |  |  |  | then | to plaintive strains  song's tongue | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | game and glee |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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