The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 125
Thereupon he ordered the oxen to go about their business, and they bounded off like stags, and were out of sight in a moment.
Who acts: thing, oxen · What happens: order, go, bound off, be · To what, where: oxen, sight
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, oxen), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 oxen | det |
| 5 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 business | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 business | nmod:poss |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bounded | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bounded | nsubj |
| 14 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 bounded | compound:prt |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 stags | case |
| 17 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bounded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sight | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sight | cc |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sight | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bounded | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 moment | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sight | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | thing | the oxen | thereupon property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ox=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the oxen not said here | about oxen's business | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location | ||||
| 3 | bound off | past | oxen = ox | like stags | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | sight | moment | tree rules |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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/pg7277/11/125/