The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 9

Among the herd there was a great blue bull, which always kept itself very smart and sleek, and often came to the King’s daughter and let her stroke him.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, keep, come, let, stroke · To what, where: great blue bull, daughter, King

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), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 herd	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herd	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bull	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bull	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bull	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bull	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bull	amod
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 kept	obj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 kept	advmod
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bull	acl:relcl
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 kept	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 smart	advmod
16	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleek	cc
18	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 smart	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bull	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 daughter	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 King	case
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 let	cc
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 came	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stroke	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a great blue bull	among the herd	tree rules
2	keep	past		a great blue bull	always, smart property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme itself=Attribute
3	come	past			to the King's daughter; often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to daughter=Initial_Location
4	let	infinitive		daughter		tree rules
5	stroke	infinitive	daughter not said here	King		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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