The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 195

Then the Master Thief flung off his beggar’s rags, and took one stable boy after the other and gently set him astride on the partitions which divided the stalls, and then he called his eleven men who were waiting outside, and they rode off with the Governor’s horses.

Who acts: Master Thief, partitions, first, eleven men, thieves · What happens: fling off, take, set, divide, call, wait · To what, where: rags, one stable boy, first, partitions, stalls · 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 (Master Thief, partitions, first, eleven men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flung	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 flung	nsubj
5	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 flung	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 beggar	nmod:poss
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rags	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 beggar	case
10	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flung	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 boy	nummod
15	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 took	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
21	gently	gently	ADV	_	22 set	advmod
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	obj
24	astride	astride	ADV	_	22 set	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 partitions	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 partitions	det
27	partitions	partition	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 set	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 divided	nsubj
29	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 partitions	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stalls	det
31	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 divided	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 called	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 called	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 called	nsubj
36	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 men	nmod:poss
38	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 men	nummod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 waiting	nsubj
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 waiting	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 waiting	aux
42	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 called	ccomp
43	outside	outside	ADV	_	42 waiting	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 rode	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 rode	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 rode	nsubj
47	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	conj
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 rode	compound:prt
49	with	with	ADP	_	53 horses	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Governor	det
51	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 horses	nmod:poss
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 Governor	case
53	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 rode	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling off	past	the Master Thief	first's beggar's rags			then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme
2	take	past	the Master Thief not said here		one stable boy		after the other		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
3	set	infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	first		the partitions		astride, gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on partition=Destination
4	divide	past	the partitions	the stalls					vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stall=Theme
5	call speech: assert	past	first				then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wait	past · progressive	first's eleven men					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ride off	past	thieves = thief					with the Governor's horses	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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