The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 149

‘Now you are in Purgatory,’ said the Master Thief, and off he went and took the gold and the silver and all the precious things which the Priest had laid together in his best parlour.

Who acts: you, Purgatory, Priest · What happens: be, say, go, take, lay · To what, where: Purgatory, gold, precious things, best parlour · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Purgatory, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Purgatory	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Purgatory	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Purgatory	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Purgatory	case
6	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Purgatory	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Purgatory	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Thief	det
11	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Thief	compound
12	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 went	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gold	det
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 silver	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 silver	det
24	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gold	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 things	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 things	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 things	det
28	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gold	conj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 laid	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Priest	det
32	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 laid	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 laid	aux
34	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 things	acl:relcl
35	together	together	ADV	_	34 laid	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 parlour	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 parlour	nmod:poss
38	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 parlour	amod
39	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		Purgatory	now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Purgatory					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Purgatory					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	Purgatory not said here	the gold and the silver and all precious things				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
5	lay	past · perfect	the Priest	all precious things	Priest's best parlour		together property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in parlour=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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