The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 80

‘That may be,’ said the Bull; so they rushed at each other, and fought, and it was such a dreadful sight that the King’s daughter very nearly swooned.

Who acts: people, tussle · What happens: be, say, rush, fight, swoon · To what, where: Bull, each, dreadful sight · 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 (people, tussle), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 said	ccomp
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 That	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bull	det
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rushed	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 rushed	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rushed	nsubj
13	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 rushed	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fought	cc
19	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sight	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sight	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sight	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sight	cop
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 sight	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sight	det
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sight	amod
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fought	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 daughter	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 King	case
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sight	advcl
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 nearly	advmod
34	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	35 swooned	advmod
35	swooned	swoon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fought	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	may					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Bull			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bull=Topic
3	rush	past	people		each		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory
4	fight	past					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	tussle	such dreadful sight			tree rules
6	swoon	participle				nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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