The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 29

She cried to her master that someone had stolen both the bag and the bridge, and the Bad One rushed in, mad with anger, and bade her go and seek for footsteps outside, that they might find out where the thief had gone.

Who acts: servant, someone, bade, footsteps, thief · What happens: cry, steal, rush in, go, seek, find out · To what, where: master, bag, Bad One

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, someone, bade, footsteps), 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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 master	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 master	nmod:poss
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stolen	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 stolen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stolen	aux
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cried	advcl
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 bag	cc:preconj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stolen	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bridge	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bridge	det
15	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mad	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mad	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 One	det
19	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 One	amod
20	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mad	nsubj
21	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 One	acl
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 rushed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mad	punct
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cried	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 anger	case
26	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mad	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	nsubj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bade	punct
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seek	cc
33	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 footsteps	case
35	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seek	obl
36	outside	outside	ADV	_	33 seek	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 find	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 find	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 find	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 find	aux
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 seek	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 find	compound:prt
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 gone	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 thief	det
45	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gone	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 gone	aux
47	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 find	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	servant		servant's master		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient
2	steal	past · perfect	someone	the bag and the bridge			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
3	rush in	participle		the Bad One not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	infinitive	bade				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	infinitive	bade not said here			for footsteps; outside property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for footstep=Theme
6	find out	might	footsteps = footstep				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	go	past · perfect	the thief				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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