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title: In the morning, when they brought the bull hame, they took the lady… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning, when they brought the bull hame, they took the lady into a fine shining parlor, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in in the world, and that wad bring her o’t. Who acts: sae, fine, no, lady. A sentence of «Th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 34

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In the morning, when they brought the bull hame, they took the lady into a fine shining parlor, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in in the world, and that wad bring her o’t.

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**Who acts:** sae, fine, no, lady, wad · **What happens:** bring, take, shine, give, tell, break · **To what, where:** bull hame, lady, fine, parlor, beautiful apple, no · **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 (sae, fine, no, lady), 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:pg503:55:34
# text = In the morning, when they brought the bull hame, they took the lady into a fine shining parlor, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in in the world, and that wad bring her o’t.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hame	hame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fine	fine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	parlor	parlor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	no	no	NOUN	NN	_	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	wad	wad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	o’t	o't	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | sae | the bull hame |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hame=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | sae | the lady |  | a fine | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into fine=Destination |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a fine *not said here* | parlor |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent parlor=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | sae *not said here* | a beautiful apple | lady |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | sae *not said here* | lady's no |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent no=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lady's no *not said here* | no |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | lady |  |  | the greatest strait |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the mortal world |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **bring** | infinitive | that wad |  | lady |  |  | o't *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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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