The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 9

At first she would not do it, but when the Bull said that this was the only reward that he would have for what he had done for her, she could do no otherwise.

Who acts: stick, Bull, this · What happens: not do, say, be, have, do · To what, where: rock, only reward, no · 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 (stick, Bull, this), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 do	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 do	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bull	det
12	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 do	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 reward	mark
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 reward	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reward	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reward	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reward	amod
19	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 reward	acl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 do	obj
36	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	34 do	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	would	stick	rock		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the Bull			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	this	the only reward		tree rules
4	have	would	Bull	the only reward not said here	for the only reward	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
5	do	past · perfect	Bull		for stick	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	could	stick	no	otherwise property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Eventuality

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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