The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 33
In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King’s daughter on his back, and one day they came to a great copper-wood, where the trees, and the branches, and the leaves, and the flowers, and everything else was of copper.
Who acts: Bull, lands, everything · What happens: travel, come, be · To what, where: flowers, meantime, branches, great copper wood
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 (Bull, lands, everything), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bull | det |
| 5 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 lands | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | nummod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 travelled | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 27 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wood | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 copper | punct |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 where | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 wood | nmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 trees | det |
| 33 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 where | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 branches | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 branches | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 branches | det |
| 37 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leaves | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 leaves | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 leaves | det |
| 41 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 flowers | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 flowers | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 flowers | det |
| 45 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 copper | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 copper | cc |
| 48 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 52 copper | nsubj |
| 49 | else | else | ADV | _ | 48 everything | advmod |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 copper | cop |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 copper | case |
| 52 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 flowers | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | the Bull | the flowers and copper | the meantime | through many lands; with the King's daughter on bull's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | come | past | lands = land | the branches | a great copper wood | day | the leaves obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | |
| 3 | is | past | everything | of copper | 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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