The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 133
So he dressed himself up like a bird, and threw a great white sheet over himself; broke off a goose’s wings, and set them on his back; and in this attire climbed into a great maple tree which stood in the Priest’s garden.
Who acts: Governor, great maple tree · What happens: dress up, throw, break off, set, climb, stand · To what, where: Governor, great white sheet, wings, back, attire, garden
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, great maple tree), 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 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | 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 dressed | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dressed | compound:prt |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sheet | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sheet | amod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sheet | amod |
| 15 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 threw | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 broke | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 goose | det |
| 22 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 goose | case |
| 24 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broke | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 broke | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 back | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 back | nmod:poss |
| 31 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 climbed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 climbed | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 attire | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 attire | det |
| 36 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | obl |
| 37 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | parataxis |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 tree | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 tree | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 tree | amod |
| 41 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tree | compound |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | obl |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 tree | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 garden | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Priest | det |
| 47 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 garden | nmod:poss |
| 48 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 47 Priest | case |
| 49 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stood | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past | Governor | Governor | like a bird | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Governor not said here | a great white sheet | over Governor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme over himself=Destination | |||
| 3 | break off | past | Governor not said here | a goose's wings | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Governor not said here | wings = wing | Governor's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 5 | climb | past | this attire | into a great maple tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | a great maple tree | the Priest's garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
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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