The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 75

She was now in such terror that she began to cry, and wanted to throw it away, but the Bull said that she was to keep it, and take the greatest care of it, and comforted her as well as he could, but he believed that it would be a hard struggle, and he doubted whether it would go well with him.

Who acts: daughter, Bull, care · What happens: be, begin, cry, want, throw away, say · To what, where: such terror, terror, greatest care, daughter, hard struggle · 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 (daughter, Bull, care), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 terror	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terror	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 terror	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 terror	case
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 terror	amod
6	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terror	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cry	mark
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terror	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 throw	mark
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 throw	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bull	det
22	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 keep	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 take	cc
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 keep	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 care	det
34	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 care	amod
35	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 care	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 comforted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 comforted	cc
40	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 comforted	obj
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 well	advmod
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 comforted	advmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 could	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 could	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 well	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 believed	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 believed	cc
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 believed	nsubj
50	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 comforted	conj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 struggle	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 struggle	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 struggle	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 struggle	cop
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 struggle	det
56	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 struggle	amod
57	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 believed	ccomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 doubted	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 doubted	cc
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 doubted	nsubj
61	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	parataxis
62	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	65 go	mark
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 go	nsubj
64	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 go	aux
65	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 doubted	ccomp
66	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	65 go	advmod
67	with	with	ADP	_	68 him	case
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 go	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terror	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter		such terror	now		tree rules
2	begin	past	daughter					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	daughter not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	past						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	throw away not said to happen	to-infinitive		terror			away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the Bull					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is	past	daughter				keep property	tree rules
8	take	infinitive	daughter not said here	the greatest care of care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
9	comfort	past	the Bull not said here	daughter			well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
10	believe	past	bull					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
11	is a	would	care	a hard struggle				tree rules
12	doubt	past	bull					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
13	go	would	care				with bull; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
14	care		care					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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