The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 141

On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel, and before the Priest was put into the sack he fell on his knees and thanked him; but no sooner was the Priest safely inside it than the Master Thief began to drag him away over stocks and stones.

Who acts: Master Thief, Priest · What happens: come, put, fall, thank, be, begin · To what, where: Priest, sack, knees, angel, stocks

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 (Master Thief, Priest), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 night	compound
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Thief	det
5	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Thief	compound
6	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 came	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 angel	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 angel	det
12	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 put	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Priest	det
17	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 put	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fell	advcl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sack	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sack	det
22	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 knees	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knees	nmod:poss
27	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thanked	cc
29	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thanked	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 began	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 Priest	cc
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 sooner	advmod
34	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 Priest	advmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Priest	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Priest	det
37	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 began	nsubj
38	safely	safely	ADV	_	40 it	advmod
39	inside	inside	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 Priest	nmod
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 Thief	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Thief	det
43	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Thief	compound
44	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Priest	nmod
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 drag	mark
47	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 drag	obj
49	away	away	ADV	_	47 drag	advmod
50	over	over	ADP	_	51 stocks	case
51	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 drag	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 stones	cc
53	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 stocks	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Master Thief				night	as a angel; once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past · passive		the Priest		the sack			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	fall	past	Priest			angel's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
4	thank speech: thank	past	Priest not said here		angel				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is a	past		the Priest		sack		than the Master Thief; soon property	tree rules
6	begin	past	the Priest						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	drag away	to-infinitive	the Priest not said here	angel		stocks and stones		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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