The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 70
As soon as Ring came in sight of the oxen they came bellowing to meet him; one of them was tremendously big, the other rather less.
Who acts: Ring, oxen, one · What happens: come, bellow, meet, be, sight · To what, where: sight, oxen, Ring
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, one), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 oxen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oxen | det |
| 10 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 oxen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | bellowing | bellow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bellowing | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 big | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 big | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 big | cop |
| 22 | tremendously | tremendously | ADV | _ | 23 big | advmod |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 other | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 big | obl |
| 27 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 28 less | advmod |
| 28 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 big | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ring | sight of the oxen | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | oxen = ox | the oxen not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bellow | gerund | oxen = ox not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | oxen = ox not said here | Ring | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | one of oxen | the other obl; big, less, tremendously property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sight | the oxen | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/70/