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title: As soon as Ring came in sight of the oxen they came bellowing to mee… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 70

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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.

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**Who acts:** Ring, oxen, one · **What happens:** come, bellow, meet, be, sight · **To what, where:** sight, oxen, Ring

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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.

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**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:pg640:42:70
# text = 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.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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