The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 10

So one day, when she was again sitting crying and sorrowing, the Bull came up to her and asked why she was always so full of care?

Who acts: daughter, Bull · What happens: sit, cry, sorrow, come up, ask, be · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sitting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
8	again	again	ADV	_	9 sitting	advmod
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl
10	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sitting	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sorrowing	cc
12	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bull	det
15	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 full	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 full	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 full	cop
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 full	advmod
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 full	advmod
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 asked	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 care	case
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	daughter		again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sorrow	gerund	daughter not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come up	past	the Bull	daughter	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	the Bull not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	daughter			of care; always, full property	tree rules

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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