The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 9

He takes bag and baggage, and, presto! is gone like a letter into the post.

Who acts: Fox, presto · What happens: take, be · To what, where: bag, post

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, presto), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 baggage	cc
5	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bag	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 presto	punct
9	presto	presto	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 presto	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 takes	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 letter	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 letter	det
15	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 post	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 post	det
18	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Fox	bag and baggage					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	is	present	presto			the post		like a letter; go property	tree rules

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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