The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 19
There he saw a huge black bull engaged in a terrible fight with a fine large stag.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: see, engage · To what, where: huge black bull, terrible fight
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bull | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bull | amod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bull | amod |
| 7 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bull | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fight | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fight | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fight | amod |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engaged | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stag | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stag | det |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stag | amod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stag | amod |
| 17 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | tailor | a huge black bull | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bull=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | engage | participle | a huge black bull not said here | in a terrible fight with a fine large stag goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in fight=Goal |
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.
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