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title: Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight’s chamber; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink, and he again sleepit till morning. Who acts: Wi ’ jewels, auld wife, knight. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norro
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 68

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Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight’s chamber; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink, and he again sleepit till morning.

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**Who acts:** Wi ’ jewels, auld wife, knight · **What happens:** bargain, be, gi, sleepit · **To what, where:** second night, chamber, 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 (Wi ’ jewels, auld wife, knight), 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:pg503:55:68
# text = Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight’s chamber; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink, and he again sleepit till morning.
1	Wi	Wi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	4	amod	_	_
3	thae	thae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	goeswith	_	_
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gied	gi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	anither	anither	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	sleepit	sleepit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
36	till	till	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bargain** | past | Wi ’ jewels |  |  |  |  | for permission | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a second night |  | the young knight's chamber |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gi** | past | the auld wife | knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleepit** |  | knight |  |  |  | again; morning |  | tree rules |

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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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