The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 21

Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and taking up the bags of money (which were his very own, because the Giant had stolen them from his father), he ran off, and with great difficulty descending the Beanstalk, laid the bags of gold on his mother’s table.

Who acts: Jack, money, great difficulty · What happens: steal, take up, be, run off, descend, lay · To what, where: wardrobe, bags, Giant, Beanstalk, table

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, money, great difficulty), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 wardrobe	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wardrobe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wardrobe	det
7	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taking	cc
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stole	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 taking	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bags	det
13	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taking	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 money	case
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bags	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 own	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 own	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 own	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 own	nmod:poss
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 own	advmod
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 money	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stolen	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 stolen	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Giant	det
25	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stolen	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stolen	aux
27	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stole	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stolen	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stolen	obl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 stolen	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 ran	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 laid	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 laid	cc
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 difficulty	case
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 difficulty	amod
41	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laid	obl
42	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 difficulty	acl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Beanstalk	det
44	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 descending	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 difficulty	punct
46	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bags	det
48	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 laid	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 gold	case
50	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bags	nmod
51	on	on	ADP	_	55 table	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 mother	nmod:poss
53	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 table	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 mother	case
55	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laid	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Jack		the wardrobe	softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wardrobe=Location
2	take up	gerund	Jack not said here	the bags of money			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	is	past	money			own property	tree rules
4	steal	past · perfect · passive		the Giant		from Jack's father	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme
5	run off	past	Jack				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	descend	gerund	great difficulty not said here	the Beanstalk			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beanstalk=Theme
7	lay	past	Jack not said here	the bags of gold	Jack's mother's table	with great difficulty	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on table=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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