The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 56

That night the young man slept soundly in his corner, and in the morning the ogress told him that his work that day would be to slay one of her great oxen, to cook its heart, and to make drinking cups of its horns, before she returned home “There are fifty oxen,” added she, “and you must guess which of the herd I want killed.

Who acts: young man, ogress, work, you, I, herd · What happens: sleep, tell, be, cook, make, drink · To what, where: corner, man, heart, cups, ogress, herd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, ogress, work, you), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	nsubj
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	6 slept	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 corner	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 corner	nmod:poss
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ogress	det
17	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slept	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 slay	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 work	nmod:poss
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slay	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 work	obl:unmarked
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 slay	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 slay	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 slay	mark
28	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 slay	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 oxen	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 oxen	nmod:poss
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 oxen	amod
33	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cook	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cook	mark
36	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 slay	conj
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heart	nmod:poss
38	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cook	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 make	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 make	cc
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 slay	conj
43	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 make	xcomp
44	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 drinking	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 horns	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 horns	nmod:poss
47	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 cups	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 returned	punct
49	before	before	SCONJ	_	51 returned	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 returned	nsubj
51	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 added	advcl
52	home	home	ADV	_	51 returned	advmod
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 are	punct
54	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	55 are	expl
55	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 added	advcl
56	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 oxen	nummod
57	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 added	nsubj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 oxen	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	57 oxen	punct
60	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	conj
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 added	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 guess	punct
63	“	"	PUNCT	_	67 guess	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 guess	cc
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	67 guess	nsubj
66	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 guess	aux
67	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 added	parataxis
68	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	71 herd	nsubj
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 herd	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 herd	det
71	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 guess	ccomp
72	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	73 want	nsubj
73	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 herd	acl:relcl
74	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 want	xcomp
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the young man			man's corner	night	soundly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the ogress		man		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is not said to happen	would	man's work					slay property	tree rules
4	cook	to-infinitive	man's work not said here	work's heart					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	man's work not said here						tree rules
6	drink	gerund	man's work not said here	cups of work's horns					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
7	return	past	ogress					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	be in a quote	present				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	add speech: assert	past		ogress					tree rules
10	guess in a quote	must	you						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	want in a quote	present	I	the herd not said here					tree rules
12	kill not said to happen, in a quote	participle	the herd not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
13	work		man						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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