The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 54
So the man came with his ox, and when he saw the body hanging there he felt a little queer.
Who acts: man, body · What happens: come, see, hang, feel · To what, where: body, little queer
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, body), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ox | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ox | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 body | acl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hanging | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hanging | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 queer | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 queer | amod |
| 21 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the man | with man's ox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | the body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | the body not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | man | a little queer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queer=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 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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