The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 124

The son had a rope ready to cast round its horns, and throw it to the ground, but the ox was stronger than the rope, and soon tore it in pieces.

Who acts: son, rope, ox · What happens: have, cast, throw, be, tore · To what, where: rope, ground, pieces

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 (son, rope, ox), 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	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cast	mark
8	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	xcomp
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 horns	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horns	nmod:poss
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cast	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
14	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stronger	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stronger	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ox	det
22	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stronger	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stronger	cop
24	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 throw	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 rope	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rope	det
27	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stronger	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tore	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tore	cc
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 tore	advmod
31	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tore	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 pieces	case
34	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tore	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the son	a rope		ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
2	cast	to-infinitive	a rope not said here			round rope's horns	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	throw	infinitive		rope	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ground=Destination
4	is	past	the ox			than the rope; strong property	tree rules
5	tore	past		rope	pieces	soon 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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