More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 91

The third day she looked again, and on coming back said to the old wife she saw nought but a great Black Bull coming crooning along the road. "

Who acts: mother, great Black Bull · What happens: look, come back, say, see, come, croon · To what, where: old wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, great Black Bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

Pragmatics

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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