The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 9

Taking down a pistol, he loaded it and put it in his belt, and a little before midnight he stole out on the tips of his toes, so as to disturb nobody.

Who acts: manner · What happens: take down, load, put, steal out, disturb · To what, where: pistol, belt, little, tips, nobody

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 loaded	advcl
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Taking	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pistol	det
4	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loaded	nsubj
7	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loaded	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 loaded	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 belt	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 belt	nmod:poss
14	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stole	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stole	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stole	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 midnight	case
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stole	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stole	nsubj
22	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loaded	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 stole	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 tips	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tips	det
26	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stole	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 toes	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 toes	nmod:poss
29	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tips	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disturb	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 disturb	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 disturb	mark
33	to	to	PART	_	34 disturb	mark
34	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 loaded	conj
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 disturb	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take down	gerund	manner not said here	a pistol			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme
2	load	past	manner	pistol			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	manner not said here	pistol	manner's belt		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in belt=Destination
4	steal out	past	manner	a little	the tips of manner's toes	midnight	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Location
5	disturb	to-infinitive	manner not said here	nobody			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nobody=Experiencer

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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