The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 123
So out he went, and the others with him, and away went the hare, and they after it, in real earnest.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: go · To what, where: others, hare
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 (Governor), 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 | _ | 2 out | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 others | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 others | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 others | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hare | det |
| 16 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 it | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 it | nsubj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 earnest | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 earnest | case |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 earnest | amod |
| 25 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 went | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Governor | the others with man | after kitchen | out property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Governor not said here | the hare | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme |
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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