More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 96

And all the while the little bull-calf was fighting all the wild beasts on the ground, and the little lad was clapping his hands up the tree, and calling out: "Go in, my little bull-calf!

Who acts: little bull calf, little lad · What happens: fight, clap, call out, go in · To what, where: wild beasts, ground, hands, little bull calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bull calf, little lad), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 fighting	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 the	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fighting	det
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 fighting	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calf	amod
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calf	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bull	punct
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fighting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fighting	aux
11	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beasts	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beasts	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beasts	amod
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fighting	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beasts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clapping	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clapping	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lad	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lad	amod
23	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clapping	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 clapping	aux
25	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fighting	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clapping	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	30 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clapping	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 calling	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 calling	cc
33	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fighting	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 calling	compound:prt
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Go	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Go	punct
37	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 calling	parataxis
38	in	in	ADV	_	37 Go	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 calf	punct
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 calf	nmod:poss
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 calf	amod
42	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 calf	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 bull	punct
44	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Go	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	the little bull calf	all wild beasts	the ground		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent
2	clap	past · progressive	the little lad	lad's hands		up the tree	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	call out speech: express	gerund	the little bull calf not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in in a quote	infinitive		my little bull calf			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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