The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 11
The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the bread and the cheese under his arm, then set out quietly for the Black Rogue’s house.
Who acts: Shifty Lad · What happens: sling, take, set out · To what, where: money bags, bread, arm
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lad | det |
| 2 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lad | amod |
| 3 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 slung | nsubj |
| 4 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bags | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bags | compound |
| 7 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slung | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slung | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slung | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bread | det |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cheese | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cheese | det |
| 17 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bread | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 arm | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 set | advmod |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 23 set | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rogue | det |
| 28 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rogue | compound |
| 29 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Rogue | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sling | past | the Shifty Lad | the money bags | round Lad's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the Shifty Lad not said here | the bread and the cheese | Lad's arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | |||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | the Shifty Lad not said here | then | for the Black Rogue's house; quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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