The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 26

But first she went to the rock and knocked at it with the stick which was standing there, as the Bull had told her to do.

Who acts: Kari, stick, Bull · What happens: go, knock, stand, tell, do · To what, where: rock, Bull, Kari · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari, stick, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knocked	cc
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knocked	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 stick	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stick	det
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocked	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 standing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 standing	aux
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stick	acl:relcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 standing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bull	det
22	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 standing	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kari			the rock	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
2	knock	past	Kari not said here				with the stick; at rock	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient with stick=Instrument
3	stand	past · progressive	the stick			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Bull	Kari			tree rules
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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