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title: Her mither did sae; and the dochter gaed awa’ to an auld witch washe… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mither did sae; and the dochter gaed awa’ to an auld witch washerwife and telled her purpose. Who acts: mither, dochter. 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 7

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Her mither did sae; and the dochter gaed awa’ to an auld witch washerwife and telled her purpose.

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**Who acts:** mither, dochter · **What happens:** do, ga, telle, purpose · **To what, where:** sae, awa, purpose

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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 (mither, dochter), 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:pg503:55:7
# text = Her mither did sae; and the dochter gaed awa’ to an auld witch washerwife and telled her purpose.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mither	mither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sae	sae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dochter	dochter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gaed	ga	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	washerwife	washerwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	telled	telle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | o's mither | sae |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sae=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ga** | past | the dochter | awa |  |  |  | to a auld witch washerwife | tree rules |
| 3 | **telle** | past | the dochter *not said here* | mither's purpose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | mither |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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