Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 5

There they spent their time in roaming about among the trees, in hunting the king's deer, and in robbing rich trav-el-ers that came that way.

Who acts: men, rich trav el ers · What happens: spend, roam, hunt, rob, come · To what, where: trees, deer, rich trav el ers

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, rich trav el ers), 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 spent	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 time	nmod:poss
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 roaming	mark
7	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 roaming	advmod
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roaming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunting	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 hunting	mark
14	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deer	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hunting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 robbing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 robbing	cc
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 robbing	mark
22	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
23	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ers	amod
24	trav	trav	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ers	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 trav	punct
26	el	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ers	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ers	punct
28	ers	er	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 robbing	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ers	acl:relcl
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	men = man		there	time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	roam	gerund	men = man not said here		the trees		about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory
3	hunt	gerund	men = man not said here	the king's deer				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
4	rob	gerund	men = man not said here	rich trav el ers				vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Source
5	come	past	rich trav el ers					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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