The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 66
So he tied up his ox and ran back to see if they really were hanging there.
Who acts: man, oxen · What happens: tie up, run back, see, hang · To what, where: ox
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tied | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ox | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 hanging | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hanging | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 hanging | advmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hanging | aux |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 see | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hanging | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | past | man | man's ox | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run back | past | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hang a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | oxen = ox | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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