The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 205

So the Master Thief immediately got hold of an old worn-out mare, and set himself to work to make a collar for it of green withies and branches of broom; bought a shabby old cart and a great cask, and then he told a poor old beggar woman that he would give her ten dollars if she would get into the cask and keep her mouth wide-open beneath the tap-hole, into which he was going to stick his finger.

Who acts: Master Thief, Governor, woman · What happens: get, set, work, make, buy, tell · To what, where: hold, Governor, collar, shabby old cart, poor old beggar woman, ten dollars · 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, Governor, woman), 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	_	6 got	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	6 got	nsubj
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	14 mare	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mare	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mare	amod
11	worn	worn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 out	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 out	punct
13	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mare	compound
14	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 set	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 work	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 collar	det
24	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 collar	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 withies	case
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 withies	amod
29	withies	withy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 collar	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 branches	cc
31	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 withies	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 broom	case
33	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 branches	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 bought	punct
35	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 got	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cart	det
37	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cart	amod
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cart	amod
39	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bought	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cask	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cask	det
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 cask	amod
43	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cart	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 told	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 told	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 told	nsubj
48	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 woman	det
50	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 woman	amod
51	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 woman	amod
52	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 woman	compound
53	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 told	obj
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 give	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 give	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 give	aux
57	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 told	ccomp
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 give	iobj
59	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 dollars	nummod
60	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 give	obj
61	if	if	SCONJ	_	64 get	mark
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 get	nsubj
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 get	aux
64	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 give	advcl
65	into	into	ADP	_	67 cask	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 cask	det
67	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 get	obl
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 keep	cc
69	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 get	conj
70	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 mouth	nmod:poss
71	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 keep	obj
72	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 open	amod
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 wide	punct
74	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 keep	xcomp
75	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	79 hole	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 hole	det
77	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 hole	compound
78	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 tap	punct
79	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 keep	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 going	punct
81	into	into	ADP	_	82 which	case
82	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	85 going	obl
83	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 going	nsubj
84	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	85 going	aux
85	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 keep	advcl
86	to	to	PART	_	87 stick	mark
87	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	85 going	xcomp
88	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	89 finger	nmod:poss
89	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 stick	obj
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Master Thief	hold of a old out mare				immediately property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
2	set	past	the Master Thief not said here	Governor					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	a collar of green withies and branches of broom				for collar	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent collar=Material for it=Beneficiary
5	buy	participle	the Master Thief not said here	a shabby old cart and a great cask					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	Governor		a poor old beggar woman		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
7	give	would	Governor	ten dollars	woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dollar=Theme
8	get a condition, not said to happen	would	woman			the cask			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cask=Destination
9	keep	infinitive	woman not said here	woman's mouth		the tap hole		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme beneath hole=Location
10	go	past · progressive	Governor						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	stick	to-infinitive	Governor not said here	Governor's finger					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
12	hold			a old out mare					nom hold «act 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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