The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 61
And the ox lay down comfortably, licking his lips, and made a hearty meal.
Who acts: ox · What happens: lie down, lick, make · To what, where: lips, hearty meal
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ox | det |
| 3 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 licking | punct |
| 8 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 licking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meal | det |
| 15 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meal | amod |
| 16 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the ox | comfortably, down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | the ox not said here | ox's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the ox not said here | a hearty meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
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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