---
title: But first she went to the rock and knocked at it with the stick whic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/) / 26

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kari, stick, Bull · **What happens:** go, knock, stand, tell, do · **To what, where:** rock, Bull, Kari · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:30:26
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/27/)
- ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/)