The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 81

The Bull gored the Troll’s eyes out and ran his horns right through him, but the Troll fought as well as he did, and when the Bull had gored one head to death the other heads breathed life into it again, so it was a whole week before the Bull was able to kill him.

Who acts: Bull, Troll, other heads, tussle · What happens: gore, run, fight, do, breathe, be · To what, where: eyes, horns, Bull, life, tussle, whole week

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, Troll, other heads, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bull	det
2	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gored	nsubj
3	gored	gore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Troll	det
5	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Troll	case
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gored	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	3 gored	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gored	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horns	nmod:poss
12	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	obj
13	right	right	ADV	_	15 him	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fought	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Troll	det
19	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fought	nsubj
20	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gored	conj
21	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	20 fought	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 as	fixed
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 did	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fought	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gored	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gored	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 gored	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Bull	det
30	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gored	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gored	aux
32	gored	gore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 breathed	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 head	nummod
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gored	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gored	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 heads	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 heads	amod
39	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 breathed	nsubj
40	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gored	parataxis
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 breathed	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 breathed	obl
44	again	again	ADV	_	40 breathed	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 week	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	51 week	advmod
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 week	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 week	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 week	det
50	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 week	amod
51	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 breathed	parataxis
52	before	before	SCONJ	_	56 able	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Bull	det
54	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 able	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 able	cop
56	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 week	advcl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 kill	mark
58	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 able	xcomp
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 kill	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gore	past	the Bull	the Troll's eyes			out property	tree rules
2	run	past	the Bull not said here	bull's horns			through bull	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horn=Trajectory
3	fight	past	the Troll					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	bull					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gore	past · perfect · passive		the Bull			to death	tree rules
6	breathe	past	the other heads	life	tussle	again		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
7	is a	past	tussle	a whole week				tree rules
8	is	past	the Bull				able property	tree rules
9	kill	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here	bull				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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