The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 68
Any one may easily imagine what a fury the man fell into when he came back and saw that his ox was gone.
Who acts: one, fury, man, ox · What happens: imagine, fall, come back, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, fury, man, ox), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 fell | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fury | det |
| 8 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 came | case |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 gone | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ox | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | cop |
| 23 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | any one | easily property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a fury | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient what=Result | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | man's ox | gone property | 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 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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