The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 49

So now he had to go home to get the money, and in the evening he came back, bringing with him a bag with two bushels in it, which he set down on the bench.

Who acts: sheriff · What happens: have, go, get, come back, bring, set down · To what, where: money, bag, two bushels, bench

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (sheriff), 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 had	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 evening	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bringing	punct
21	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bringing	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bag	det
25	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bringing	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 bushels	case
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 bushels	nummod
28	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bringing	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bushels	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 set	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 set	nsubj
34	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bushels	acl:relcl
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 set	compound:prt
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 bench	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bench	det
38	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 set	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	sheriff			now		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	sheriff not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	sheriff not said here	the money				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
4	come back	past	sheriff			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	gerund	sheriff not said here	a bag			with sheriff; with two bushels in money	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
6	set down	past	sheriff	two bushels in money	the bench			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme on bench=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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