The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 31

So at cock-crow next morning, when the people came to kill the Bull, he was gone, and when the King got up and asked for his daughter she was gone too.

Who acts: people, bull, King, daughter · What happens: come, kill, be, get up, ask · To what, where: Bull · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, bull, King, daughter), 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	_	12 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 crow	case
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crow	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cock	punct
5	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crow	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 kill	mark
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bull	det
16	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 got	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 got	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 daughter	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gone	nsubj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gone	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	cop
35	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 asked	ccomp
36	too	too	ADV	_	35 gone	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people		at cock crow next morning	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the Bull		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme
3	is	past	bull		gone property	tree rules
4	get up	past	the King			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	ask speech: ask	past	the King not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	bull's daughter		gone 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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