The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 30

At night, when all the others had gone to bed, the King’s daughter stole softly down to the byre to the Bull, and he took her on his back and got out of the courtyard as quickly as he could.

Who acts: others, daughter, bull · What happens: go, steal, take, get out · To what, where: bed, daughter, back, courtyard

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 (others, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 others	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 night	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	nsubj
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	softly	softly	ADV	_	19 down	advmod
19	down	down	ADV	_	17 stole	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 byre	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 byre	det
22	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Bull	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Bull	det
25	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 byre	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stole	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 courtyard	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 courtyard	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 courtyard	det
39	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 got	obl
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 quickly	advmod
41	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 could	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 could	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 quickly	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	all others		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	steal	past	the King's daughter			night	to the byre to the Bull; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	bull	daughter	bull's back			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on back=Destination
4	get out	past	bull not said here	the courtyard			quickly 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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