The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 72

So the youth set out and went to the wood, and when the man was coming along with the ox he began to bellow loudly, just like a great ox somewhere inside the wood.

Who acts: youth, man · What happens: set out, go, come along, begin, bellow · To what, where: youth, wood, 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 (youth, 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 youth	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 set	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 coming	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 coming	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 coming	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	aux
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
18	along	along	ADV	_	17 coming	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 ox	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ox	det
21	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ox	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bellow	mark
25	bellow	bellow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	25 bellow	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ox	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	32 ox	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 ox	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ox	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ox	amod
32	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bellow	obl
33	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 ox	advmod
34	inside	inside	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ox	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	participle		the youth not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the youth		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
3	come along	past · progressive	the man			with the ox; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	man	the ox not said here			tree rules
5	bellow	to-infinitive	man not said here			like a great ox inside the wood; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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