The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 63
But the Bull was then so weak and worn out that it was only with pain and effort that he could move, and so covered with wounds that the blood streamed from him.
Who acts: Bull, horn, that · What happens: be, wear out, move, cover, blood, stream · To what, where: effort, blood
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, horn, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 weak | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bull | det |
| 3 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weak | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weak | cop |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 weak | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 weak | advmod |
| 7 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worn | cc |
| 9 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 weak | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 worn | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pain | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pain | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pain | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 pain | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pain | case |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worn | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 effort | cc |
| 18 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pain | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 move | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 move | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 move | aux |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 effort | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 covered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 covered | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 covered | advmod |
| 26 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 weak | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 wounds | case |
| 28 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 covered | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 blood | nsubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 blood | det |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wounds | nmod |
| 32 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 blood | acl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 streamed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Bull | then | weak property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear out | participle | the Bull not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | horn | with pain and effort | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move | could | bull | effort not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent effort=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cover | participle | the Bull not said here | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | ||||
| 6 | blood | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | stream | participle | the blood not said here | from bull | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from he=Source |
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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