The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 176

The rest of them thought that she ought not to stay, but while they were disputing about this and looking after the horses, she crept farther and farther into the stable, and at last sat down behind the door, and when once she was inside no one took any more notice of her.

Who acts: rest, horses, one · What happens: think, not stay, dispute, look, creep, sit down · To what, where: stable, last, more notice, rest · 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 (rest, horses, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rest	nmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 stay	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	nsubj
8	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stay	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 crept	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 disputing	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 disputing	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 disputing	aux
17	disputing	dispute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 crept	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 this	case
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 disputing	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looking	cc
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 disputing	conj
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 horses	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horses	det
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disputing	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crept	nsubj
27	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	conj
28	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 crept	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 farther	cc
30	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 farther	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 stable	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stable	det
33	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crept	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sat	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sat	obl
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	parataxis
39	down	down	ADP	_	38 sat	compound:prt
40	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 door	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sat	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 took	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 took	cc
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 took	advmod
46	once	once	SCONJ	_	51 one	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 one	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 one	cop
49	inside	inside	ADP	_	51 one	case
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 one	det
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 took	nsubj
52	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
53	any	any	ADV	_	52 took	advmod
54	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 notice	amod
55	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 took	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 her	case
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 notice	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the rest of horses					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not stay	ought	rest					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dispute	past · progressive	horses = horse				about this	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about this=Theme
4	look	gerund	horses = horse not said here			after the horses		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	creep	past	rest		the stable		far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stable=Destination
6	sit down	past			last		behind the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
7	is	past	rest				inside no one	tree rules
8	take	past	no one	more notice of rest			any property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
9	notice			rest				nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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