The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 61
In a moment he saw them, far away, driving the biggest ox the youth had ever seen.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, drive · To what, where: oxen, biggest ox, youth
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 (man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 away | punct |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 driving | punct |
| 11 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ox | det |
| 13 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 ox | amod |
| 14 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driving | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 driving | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | oxen = ox | moment | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | drive | gerund | man not said here | the biggest ox | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ox=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the youth | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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