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title: “Seven lang years I served for thee,” &c. Still he sleepit, and she… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Seven lang years I served for thee,” &c. Still he sleepit, and she nearly lost hope a’thegither. Who acts: damosel, jewelry. 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 70

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“Seven lang years I served for thee,” &c. Still he sleepit, and she nearly lost hope a’thegither.

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**Who acts:** damosel, jewelry · **What happens:** serve, sleepit, lose · **To what, where:** hope a’thegither

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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 (damosel, jewelry), 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:pg503:55:70
# text = “Seven lang years I served for thee,” &c. Still he sleepit, and she nearly lost hope a’thegither.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	lang	lang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sleepit	sleepit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	a’thegither	a'thegither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** *in a quote* | past | damosel |  |  |  | year | for thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **sleepit** |  | jewelry |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | past | damosel | hope a’thegither |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a'thegither=Eventuality |

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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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