The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 47

So they had to wait a day, and the Bull told the King’s daughter to take the horn of ointment which hung at the Troll’s belt, and rub him with it; then he was himself again, and the next day they set off once more.

Who acts: woods, Bull, horn · What happens: have, wait, tell, take, hang, rub · To what, where: daughter, horn, belt, 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 (woods, Bull, horn), 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	_	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wait	mark
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bull	det
11	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
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	12 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horn	det
20	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 ointment	case
22	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horn	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 horn	acl:relcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 belt	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Troll	det
27	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 belt	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Troll	case
29	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rub	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rub	cc
32	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rub	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rub	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 himself	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 himself	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 himself	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 himself	cop
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 had	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	40 himself	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 set	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 set	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 day	det
45	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 day	amod
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 set	obl:unmarked
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 set	nsubj
48	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
49	off	off	ADP	_	48 set	compound:prt
50	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	51 more	advmod
51	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	48 set	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	woods = wood						tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here				day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Bull		the King's daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here	the horn of ointment					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
5	hang	past	the horn of ointment			the Troll's belt			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at belt=Location
6	rub	infinitive	the Bull not said here		bull			with belt	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with it=Theme
7	is a	past	bull	bull			then; again		tree rules
8	set off	past	woods = wood				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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