The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 11
Then the big ox broke away, and the others followed till they all disappeared down a deep hole into the earth.
Who acts: big ox, others, oxen · What happens: break away, follow, disappear down · To what, where: deep hole, earth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big ox, others, oxen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ox | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ox | amod |
| 4 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 broke | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 disappeared | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 disappeared | advmod |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 followed | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 disappeared | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hole | amod |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappeared | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break away | past | the big ox | then | away property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the others | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disappear down | past | oxen = ox | a deep hole | the earth | 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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