The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 123
Last of all they came to the king’s cherished ox.
Who acts: Last, king ’s · What happens: come, cherish · To what, where: ox
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 (Last, king ’s), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Last | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 cherished | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ’s | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ’s | compound |
| 9 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cherished | nsubj |
| 10 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cherished | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Last of all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cherish | past | the king ’s | ox | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=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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