The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 163

and immediately the reindeer drew near, and nursed and tended the child the whole day long; but at nightfall it had to follow the herd, and said to the widow woman:

Who acts: reindeer · What happens: draw, nurse, tend, have, follow, say · To what, where: child, nightfall, herd, widow woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer), 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	_	5 drew	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reindeer	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nursed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nursed	cc
9	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tended	cc
11	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nursed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tended	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 long	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 tended	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 nightfall	case
21	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 herd	det
27	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 woman	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
33	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 woman	compound
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the reindeer				immediately, near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nurse	past	the reindeer not said here					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	tend	past	the reindeer not said here	the child			long property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	have	past	reindeer			nightfall		tree rules
5	follow	to-infinitive	reindeer not said here	the herd				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the reindeer not said here		the widow woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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