The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 74

At length they fell fast asleep, and then I stole softly down, and seeing some turf convenient, I placed one under each of their heads, and off I went, with their gold, as fast as I could.

Who acts: bags, I, some · What happens: fall, steal, see, turf, place, go · To what, where: length, one, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bags, I, some), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fell	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stole	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stole	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stole	nsubj
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 stole	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 placed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 placed	cc
16	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 placed	advcl
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 turf	nsubj
18	turf	turf	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seeing	ccomp
19	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 turf	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seeing	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 placed	nsubj
22	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 placed	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 placed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 heads	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heads	nmod:poss
28	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 each	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
31	off	off	ADP	_	33 went	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gold	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 gold	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 gold	nmod:poss
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fast	punct
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 fast	advmod
40	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 went	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 could	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fast	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	bags = bag		length		asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	steal	past	I			then	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	gerund	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	turf	present	some				convenient property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	place	past	I	one	each			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme under each=Destination
6	go	past	I				with bags's gold; fast property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with gold=Beneficiary

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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