The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 55

She thought that some naughty boy or girl was playing a trick upon her and had caught the goat on its way home and stolen all the milk.

Who acts: widow, naughty boy · What happens: think, play, catch, steal · To what, where: trick, goat, way, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, naughty boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 playing	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det
5	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 girl	cc
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 playing	aux
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trick	det
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 playing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caught	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	aux
17	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 goat	det
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obl
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stolen	cc
25	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 caught	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 milk	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 milk	det
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stolen	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	widow				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	play	past · progressive	some naughty boy or girl	a trick		upon widow	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
3	catch	past · perfect	widow not said here	the goat	trick's way		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
4	steal	participle	widow not said here	all milk			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=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 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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