The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 57

‘Moo-oo,’ sounded close behind him, and looking round he saw a great red ox, which said, ‘I have much pleasure in accepting your kind invitation.’

Who acts: Moo oo, man, great red ox, I, your · What happens: sound, look round, see, say, have, accept · To what, where: great red ox, much pleasure, kind invitation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moo oo, man, great red ox, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 oo	punct
2	Moo	moo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oo	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Moo	punct
4	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounded	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oo	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 oo	punct
7	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 sounded	advmod
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sounded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saw	advcl
14	round	round	ADP	_	13 looking	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sounded	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ox	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ox	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ox	amod
20	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ox	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pleasure	amod
29	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 accepting	mark
31	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 have	advcl
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 invitation	nmod:poss
33	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 invitation	compound
34	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 accepting	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sounded	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Moo oo		behind man; close property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
2	look round	gerund	man not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	man	a great red ox		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	a great red ox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	present	I	much pleasure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
6	accept	gerund	I not said here	your kind invitation		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
7	invite		your			nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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