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title: So the lady consented; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the lady consented; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sleeping-drink, and given it to the knight, wha drank it, and never wakened till next morning. Who acts: lady, auld wife, wha. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree an
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 63

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So the lady consented; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sleeping-drink, and given it to the knight, wha drank it, and never wakened till next morning.

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**Who acts:** lady, auld wife, wha · **What happens:** consent, prepare, give, drink, not waken · **To what, where:** sleeping drink, drink, knight

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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 (lady, auld wife, wha), 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:pg503:55:63
# text = So the lady consented; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sleeping-drink, and given it to the knight, wha drank it, and never wakened till next morning.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	wha	wha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
32	till	till	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | participle | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | past · perfect | the auld wife | a sleeping drink |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | drink | the knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient |
| 4 | **drink** | past | wha | drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **waken** | participle | wha *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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