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title: At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the auld washerwife’s habitation. Who acts: wad. 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 56

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At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the auld washerwife’s habitation.

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**Who acts:** wad · **What happens:** get, chance, come · **To what, where:** iron shoon, end, habitation

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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 (wad), 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:pg503:55:56
# text = At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the auld washerwife’s habitation.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shoon	shoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	clamb	clamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	glassy	glassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	washerwife	washerwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | wad | wad's iron shoon and clamb |  |  | at seven years's end |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent shoon=Beneficiary hill=Theme |
| 2 | **chance** | participle | wad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | wad *not said here* |  |  | the auld washerwife's habitation |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to habitation=Initial\_Location |

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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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