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title: But the Bull was then so weak and worn out that it was only with pai… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Bull was then so weak and worn out that it was only with pain and effort that he could move, and so covered with wounds that the blood streamed from him. Who acts: Bull, horn, that. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 63

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But the Bull was then so weak and worn out that it was only with pain and effort that he could move, and so covered with wounds that the blood streamed from him.

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**Who acts:** Bull, horn, that · **What happens:** be, wear out, move, cover, blood, stream · **To what, where:** effort, blood

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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 (Bull, horn, that), 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:pg540:29:63
# text = But the Bull was then so weak and worn out that it was only with pain and effort that he could move, and so covered with wounds that the blood streamed from him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Bull |  |  |  | then | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear out** | participle | the Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | horn |  |  |  |  | with pain and effort | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | could | bull | effort *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent effort=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | participle | the Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme |
| 6 | **blood** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stream** | participle |  | the blood *not said here* |  |  |  | from bull | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from he=Source |

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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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