The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 113
You must look after forty oxen, and be sure you are very careful, for one of them has gold-tipped horns and hoofs, and the king reckons it among his greatest treasures.”
Who acts: You, king · What happens: look, be, have, tip, reckon, treasure · To what, where: tipped horns, loss
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, king), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 oxen | case |
| 5 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 oxen | nummod |
| 6 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sure | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 careful | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 careful | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 careful | advmod |
| 14 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 look | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | obl |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tipped | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 gold | punct |
| 23 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 horns | amod |
| 24 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hoofs | cc |
| 26 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 horns | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reckons | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 reckons | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reckons | nsubj |
| 31 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 reckons | obj |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 treasures | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 35 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 treasures | amod |
| 36 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 reckons | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | must | You | after forty oxen | for one | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | You not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | tipped horns and hoofs | of oxen = ox | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tip | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | reckon | present | the king | loss | among king's greatest treasures | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | |||
| 7 | treasure | king | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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