--- title: In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King’… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King’s daughter on his back, and one day they came to a great copper-wood, where the trees, and the branches, and the leaves, and the flowers, and everything else was of copper. Who acts: Bull, lands, everything. A sentence of «The Red F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/) / 33 # The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 33 In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King’s daughter on his back, and one day they came to a great copper-wood, where the trees, and the branches, and the leaves, and the flowers, and everything else was of copper. **Who acts:** Bull, lands, everything · **What happens:** travel, come, be · **To what, where:** flowers, meantime, branches, great copper wood 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, lands, everything), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:29:33 # text = In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King’s daughter on his back, and one day they came to a great copper-wood, where the trees, and the branches, and the leaves, and the flowers, and everything else was of copper. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bull Bull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 nmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 48 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 52 nsubj _ _ 49 else else ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | the Bull | the flowers and copper | | the meantime | | through many lands; with the King's daughter on bull's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** | past | lands *= land* | the branches | | a great copper wood | day | the leaves *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is** | past | everything | | | | | of copper | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/34/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/)