--- title: In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of a’, and gied… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of a’, and gied her a plum, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that wad get her out o’t. Who acts: sae, no, brither, wad. 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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 (sae, no, brither, wad), 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:pg503:55:43 # text = In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of a’, and gied her a plum, telling her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that wad get her out 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 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 advcl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’ ' NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gied gi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 plum plum NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 no no NOUN NN _ 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 till till SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 32 in in SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 35 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 mortal mortal NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 in in ADV RB _ 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 wad wad NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 47 o’t o't ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | sae | brither | | a room | morning | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | | 2 | **gi** | past | sae *not said here* | brither | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | sae *not said here* | brither's no | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent no=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | brither's no *not said here* | no | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 5 | **is** | could · past | brither | | | | | in *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **get out** | infinitive | that wad | brither | | | | o't *property* | tree rules | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/44/) - ↑ back to [The Black Bull of Norroway](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/)