The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 100

So the man left the house, and leading the mules from the stable, placed two sacks on their back, and drove them to a field where he had found a hidden treasure.

Who acts: man, mules, cock · What happens: leave, lead, place, drive, find · To what, where: house, mules, stable, two sacks, back, field

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mules, cock), 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	_	4 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leading	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leading	cc
9	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 left	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mules	det
11	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leading	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mules	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mules	acl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sacks	nummod
18	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sacks	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drove	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drove	cc
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 field	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 field	det
28	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 found	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 field	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 treasure	det
34	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 treasure	amod
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past	the man	the house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	lead	gerund	the man not said here	the mules	the stable	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mule=Theme from stable=Destination
3	place	participle	the mules not said here	two sacks	mules's back	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on back=Destination
4	drive	past	the man not said here	mules = mule	a field	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to field=Trajectory
5	find	past · perfect	cock	a hidden treasure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic

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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