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title: So one day, when she was again sitting crying and sorrowing, the Bul… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day, when she was again sitting crying and sorrowing, the Bull came up to her and asked why she was always so full of care? Who acts: daughter, Bull. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 10

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So one day, when she was again sitting crying and sorrowing, the Bull came up to her and asked why she was always so full of care?

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**Who acts:** daughter, Bull · **What happens:** sit, cry, sorrow, come up, ask, be · **To what, where:** daughter

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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, Bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:29:10
# text = So one day, when she was again sitting crying and sorrowing, the Bull came up to her and asked why she was always so full of care?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | daughter |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sorrow** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come up** | past | the Bull |  | daughter |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | of care; always, full *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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