The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 29
“Ask the king to give you a hundred oxen, and to let them be killed and cut into small pieces.
Who acts: you, oxen · What happens: ask, give, let, kill, cut · To what, where: king, hundred oxen, you, oxen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, oxen), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ask | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Ask | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 oxen | nummod |
| 10 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ask | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 let | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cut | cc |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 killed | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pieces | amod |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cut | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | hundred oxen | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ox=Theme | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | oxen = ox | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive · passive | oxen = ox not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | cut in a quote | participle | oxen = ox not said here | into small pieces | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into piece=Patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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