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title: The second dochter next says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a banno… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The second dochter next says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, fur I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.” Who acts: second dochter. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 15

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The second dochter next says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, fur I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.”

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**Who acts:** second dochter · **What happens:** say, mither, bake, roast, be, seek · **To what, where:** mither, bannock, second dochter, collop, fur, fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (second dochter), 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:pg503:55:15
# text = The second dochter next says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, fur I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	dochter	dochter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mither	mither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Mither	mither	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	collop	collop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	gaun	gaun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the second dochter |  | wife's mither |  |  | next *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mither=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mither** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a bannock | the second dochter *= dochter* |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product |
| 4 | **roast** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a collop | the second dochter *= dochter* |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the second dochter *= dochter* | fur |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot awa=Theme |
| 6 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the second dochter *= dochter* *not said here* | my fortune |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |

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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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