The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 162

So the Master Thief went to a shop, and bought enough brandy to fill two pocket flasks, and he put a sleeping drink into one of these, but into the other he poured brandy only.

Who acts: Master Thief, Governor · What happens: go, buy, fill, put, pour · To what, where: shop, enough brandy, two pocket flasks, sleeping drink, brandy, other

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, 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	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
3	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Thief	compound
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shop	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bought	cc
11	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brandy	amod
13	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bought	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fill	mark
15	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bought	advcl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 flasks	nummod
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flasks	compound
18	flasks	flask	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fill	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 drink	det
24	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	compound
25	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 put	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 these	case
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 poured	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 poured	cc
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 other	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 poured	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 poured	nsubj
36	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
37	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 poured	obj
38	only	only	ADV	_	36 poured	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Master Thief		a shop		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
2	buy	past	the Master Thief not said here	enough brandy			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brandy=Theme
3	fill	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	two pocket flasks			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flask=Patient
4	put	past	Governor	a sleeping drink		into one of these	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent drink=Goal
5	pour	past	Governor	brandy	the other		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent brandy=Theme into other=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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