The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 16

So after Peter had gone out to the fields, she crept up to his room and stole the napkins and then set off as fast as she could to the fire by a path she knew of over the hill.

Who acts: Peter, maiden · What happens: go out, creep up, steal, set off, know · To what, where: room, napkins, path

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, maiden), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 crept	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 crept	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 room	nmod:poss
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crept	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stole	cc
18	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crept	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 napkins	det
20	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stole	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 set	advmod
23	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stole	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 fast	advmod
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 set	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 could	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fast	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 fire	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 could	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 path	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 path	det
35	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 path	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 hill	case
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 hill	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hill	det
41	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 knew	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	Peter				to the fields	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creep up	past	maiden		Peter's room			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination
3	steal	past	maiden not said here	the napkins				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location napkin=Theme
4	set off	infinitive	maiden not said here			then	by a path; fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	maiden	a path not said here			of the hill	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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