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title: She bargained as before; and the auld wife, as before, took in the s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She bargained as before; and the auld wife, as before, took in the sleeping-drink to the young knight’s chamber; but he telled her he couldna drink it that night without sweetening. Who acts: damosel, auld wife, jewelry. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 75

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She bargained as before; and the auld wife, as before, took in the sleeping-drink to the young knight’s chamber; but he telled her he couldna drink it that night without sweetening.

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**Who acts:** damosel, auld wife, jewelry · **What happens:** bargain, take, telle, drink, sweeten · **To what, where:** sleeping drink, damosel, chamber

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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, auld wife, 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:pg503:55:75
# text = She bargained as before; and the auld wife, as before, took in the sleeping-drink to the young knight’s chamber; but he telled her he couldna drink it that night without sweetening.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	telled	telle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	couldna	couldna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	_
33	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	sweetening	sweeten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bargain** | past | damosel |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the auld wife |  |  | the sleeping drink |  | to the young knight's chamber *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result |
| 3 | **telle** | past | jewelry | damosel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | infinitive | jewelry | chamber |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **sweeten** | gerund | jewelry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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