The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 54

He went only so near that he could see the ram’s blood which coloured the grass red, and some tufts of wool which the wolves had torn from the back of the poor animal.

Who acts: Walter, blood · What happens: go, see, colour, tear · To what, where: blood, grass, tufts

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, blood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 so	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	9 see	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ram	det
11	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blood	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 ram	case
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 coloured	nsubj
15	coloured	colour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blood	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coloured	obj
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grass	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torn	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 torn	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 tufts	det
22	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torn	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wool	case
24	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tufts	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 torn	nsubj:pass
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolves	det
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torn	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 torn	aux
29	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 back	det
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 torn	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 animal	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 animal	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 animal	amod
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 back	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Walter			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	Walter	the ram's blood		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
3	colour	past	the ram's blood	the grass		tree rules
4	tear	past · perfect · passive		some tufts of wool	from the back of the poor animal	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from back=Co-Patient

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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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