The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 112

So he set himself to work to catch three hares alive, put them in a bag, clad himself in some old rags so that he looked so poor and wretched that it was quite pitiable to see him, and in this guise on Sunday forenoon he sneaked into the passage with his bag, like any beggar boy.

Who acts: man, it · What happens: set, work, catch, put, clad, look · To what, where: man, three hares, hares, bag, old rags, guise

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it), 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	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 set	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 catch	mark
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	advcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hares	nummod
10	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	obj
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 catch	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 catch	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bag	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bag	det
17	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clad	punct
19	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 clad	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 rags	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rags	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rags	amod
24	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clad	obl
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 looked	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clad	advcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 poor	advmod
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looked	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wretched	cc
32	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 poor	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 pitiable	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pitiable	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 pitiable	cop
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 pitiable	advmod
37	pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 poor	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 pitiable	csubj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sneaked	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sneaked	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 guise	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 guise	det
45	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sneaked	obl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 forenoon	case
47	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 forenoon	compound
48	forenoon	forenoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 guise	nmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sneaked	nsubj
50	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 passage	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 passage	det
53	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sneaked	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 bag	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 bag	nmod:poss
56	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 passage	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 boy	punct
58	like	like	ADP	_	61 boy	case
59	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	61 boy	det
60	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 boy	compound
61	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sneaked	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	man	man			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	to-infinitive	man not said here	three hares		alive property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
4	put	infinitive	man not said here	hares = hare	a bag		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bag=Destination
5	clad	past	man not said here	man	some old rags		tree rules
6	look	past	man			poor property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past	it			pitiable property	tree rules
8	see	to-infinitive		man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	sneak	past	man		this guise on Sunday forenoon	into the passage with man's bag; like any beggar boy	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into passage=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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