The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 64

So he told the King’s daughter to take the horn of ointment that was hanging at the Troll’s belt, and anoint him with it.

Who acts: bull, ointment · What happens: tell, take, hang, anoint · 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 (bull, ointment), 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 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horn	det
11	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 ointment	case
13	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horn	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hanging	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hanging	aux
16	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ointment	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 belt	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Troll	det
19	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 belt	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Troll	case
21	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hanging	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 anoint	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 anoint	cc
24	anoint	anoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 anoint	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 anoint	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	bull		the King's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	bull not said here	the horn of ointment				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
3	hang	past · progressive	ointment			the Troll's belt		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at belt=Location
4	anoint	infinitive	bull not said here		bull		with horn	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with it=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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