The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 69

Not knowing how dangerous the oxen were, Ring was quite ready, and went off at once, to the great delight of Red, who was now sure of his death.

Who acts: Ring, oxen, great delight, Red · What happens: not know, be, go off, delight, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, oxen, great delight, Red), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ready	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knowing	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oxen	det
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
9	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ready	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	cop
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 ready	advmod
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 went	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 delight	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 delight	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 delight	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 delight	amod
23	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Red	case
25	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 delight	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sure	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sure	advmod
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 delight	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 death	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 death	nmod:poss
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sure	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	Ring not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the oxen		dangerous property	tree rules
3	is	past	Ring		ready property	tree rules
4	go off	past	Ring not said here		to the great delight of Red	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	is	past	the great delight of Red	now	of Ring's death; sure property	tree rules
6	delight		Red			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
7	die		Ring			nom death «event intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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