--- title: ‘Moo-oo,’ sounded close behind him, and looking round he saw a great… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Moo-oo,’ sounded close behind him, and looking round he saw a great red ox, which said, ‘I have much pleasure in accepting your kind invitation.’ Who acts: Moo oo, man, great red ox, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moo oo, man, great red ox, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:22:57 # text = ‘Moo-oo,’ sounded close behind him, and looking round he saw a great red ox, which said, ‘I have much pleasure in accepting your kind invitation.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Moo moo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 13 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 accepting accept VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | Moo oo | | | | | behind man; close *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | | 2 | **look round** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | man | a great red ox | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a great red ox | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | I | much pleasure | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | | 6 | **accept** | gerund | I *not said here* | your kind invitation | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | | 7 | **invite** | | your | | | | | | nom invitation «communication transitive»: 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/58/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/)