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title: The third dochter says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The third dochter says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.” Who acts: third 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 20

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

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**Who acts:** third dochter · **What happens:** say, mither, bake, roast, be, seek · **To what, where:** mither, bannock, third dochter, collop, gaun awa, 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 (third 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:pg503:55:20
# text = The third dochter says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	dochter	dochter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mither	mither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Mither	mither	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	collop	collop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	gaun	gaun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	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 third dochter |  | wife's mither |  |  |  | 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 third 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 third 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 third dochter *= dochter* | gaun awa |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot awa=Theme |
| 6 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the third 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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