More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 86

The daughter soon found out that the red calf gave food to Rushen Coatie, and told her mother.

Who acts: daughter, red calf · What happens: find out, give, tell · To what, where: food, Rushen, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, red calf), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calf	amod
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	advcl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Rushen	case
13	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
14	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rushen	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find out	past	the daughter			soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the red calf	food	Rushen		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to rushen=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the daughter not said here		Rushen's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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