The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 126
Here the ox, thinking itself safe, stopped to rest, and thus gave the young man a chance to come up with it.
What happens: think, stop, rest, give, come up · To what, where: rope, chance, young man
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ox | det |
| 3 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Here | advcl |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 thinking | obj |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thinking | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 safe | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rest | mark |
| 11 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 gave | advmod |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chance | det |
| 20 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 chance | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 come | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | rope | safe property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot itself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | participle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | a chance | the young man | thus property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 5 | come up | to-infinitive | a chance not said here | with rope | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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