The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 33

Not very far off there dwelt a man who had three oxen, one of which he was to take to the town to sell.

Who acts: man · What happens: not dwell, have, be, sell · To what, where: man, three oxen

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	6 dwelt	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 far	advmod
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 off	advmod
4	off	off	ADV	_	6 dwelt	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oxen	nummod
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oxen	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 take	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 take	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 one	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sell	mark
25	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dwell	past		a man	there	off property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a man	three oxen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
3	is	past	man			to the town; take property	tree rules
4	sell	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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