The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 66

At last they set forth on their way again, but the Bull was still weak, and at first could not go quickly.

Who acts: entrails, Bull · What happens: set, be, not go · To what, where: last

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 (entrails, Bull), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weak	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 weak	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bull	det
13	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weak	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 weak	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 weak	advmod
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 first	case
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 go	obl
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 go	advmod
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 weak	conj
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	entrails = entrail	last		on entrails's way; forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination
2	is	past	the Bull		still	weak property	tree rules
3	not go	could	the Bull not said here			quickly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location

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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