The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 164

After this, by fair words and good payment, he borrowed a ragged gown and a jerkin from an aged woman, and then, with a staff in his hand and a poke on his back, he hobbled off as evening came on towards the Governor’s stable.

Who acts: Governor, staff, evening · What happens: borrow, hobble off, come on · To what, where: ragged gown, stable

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, staff, evening), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 borrowed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 this	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 payment	cc
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 payment	amod
9	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 borrowed	nsubj
12	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gown	det
14	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gown	amod
15	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 borrowed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jerkin	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 jerkin	det
18	jerkin	jerkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gown	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 woman	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jerkin	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hobbled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hobbled	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 hobbled	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 then	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 staff	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 staff	det
29	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hobbled	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 staff	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 poke	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 poke	det
35	poke	poke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hand	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 back	nmod:poss
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 poke	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 staff	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hobbled	nsubj
41	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 borrowed	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 hobbled	compound:prt
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 came	mark
44	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 hobbled	advcl
46	on	on	ADV	_	45 came	advmod
47	towards	towards	ADP	_	51 stable	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Governor	det
49	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 stable	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Governor	case
51	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 came	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	borrow	past	Governor	a ragged gown and a jerkin from a aged woman		after this	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme
2	hobble off	past	a staff in Governor's hand and a poke on Governor's back			then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come on	past	evening		the Governor's stable		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards stable=Initial_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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