The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 36
When the shepherd heard these words he went straight to his master and told him, and the master at once took a waggon, and broke open the door of the vault, and they carried off the treasure.
Who acts: shepherd, master, words · What happens: hear, go, tell, take, break, open · To what, where: words, shepherd, waggon, door, treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, master, words), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 master | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 master | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 master | det |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 took | obl |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 waggon | det |
| 24 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 broke | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 broke | cc |
| 27 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 28 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 broke | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 open | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 vault | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 vault | det |
| 33 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 carried | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 carried | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 carried | nsubj |
| 37 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 treasure | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 treasure | det |
| 40 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carried | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the shepherd | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | shepherd | this words not said here | to shepherd's master | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | shepherd not said here | shepherd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the master | a waggon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 5 | break | past | the shepherd not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | open | infinitive | the shepherd not said here | the door of the vault | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry off | past | words = word | the treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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: «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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