The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 114

The young man drove out the oxen into the meadow, and no sooner had they got there than, like the sheep and the pigs, they began to scamper in all directions, the precious bull being the wildest of all.

Who acts: young man, man, precious bull · What happens: drive out, get, begin, be · To what, where: oxen, meadow, scamper, directions

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 (young man, man, precious bull), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 drove	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oxen	det
7	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 meadow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadow	det
10	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sooner	det
14	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 got	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	parataxis
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 got	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	23 sheep	case
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sheep	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 sheep	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sheep	det
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pigs	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pigs	det
26	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sheep	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 scamper	mark
31	scamper	scamper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 began	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 directions	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 directions	det
34	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scamper	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wildest	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bull	det
37	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bull	amod
38	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wildest	nsubj
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 wildest	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wildest	det
41	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 scamper	appos
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 wildest	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive out	past	the young man	the oxen	the meadow		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxen=Theme into meadow=Trajectory
2	get	past	man		there	than the sheep and the pigs; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	man	scamper	all directions		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scamper=Eventuality
4	is	gerund	the precious bull			of all; wild property	tree rules

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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