The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 127

Not knowing how to catch it, he collected all the wood he could find and made a circle of fire round the ox, who by this time had fallen asleep, and did not wake till the fire had caught its head, and it was too late for it to escape.

Who acts: son, ox, rope · What happens: not know, catch, collect, find, make, fall · To what, where: rope, wood, circle, fire

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, ox, rope), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 collected	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 catch	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 catch	mark
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 collected	nsubj
9	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wood	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collected	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wood	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 collected	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 circle	det
19	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 fire	case
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 circle	nmod
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 ox	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ox	det
24	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fallen	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fallen	nsubj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fallen	obl
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fallen	aux
31	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 ox	acl:relcl
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fallen	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wake	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wake	cc
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wake	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 wake	advmod
37	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 collected	conj
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 caught	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 caught	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 caught	aux
42	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 wake	advcl
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 head	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 caught	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 late	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 late	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 late	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 late	cop
49	too	too	ADV	_	50 late	advmod
50	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 collected	parataxis
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 escape	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 escape	nsubj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 escape	mark
54	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 late	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	son not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch	to-infinitive	son not said here	rope			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	collect	past	son	all wood			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	find	could	son	all wood not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic
5	make	past	son not said here	a circle of fire		round the ox	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product
6	fall	past · perfect	the ox		time	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not wake	past · do-support	son not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	catch	past · perfect · passive		the fire			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary head=Theme
9	is	past	rope			late property	tree rules
10	escape	to-infinitive	rope				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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