The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 207

Then he dressed himself in rags, dyed himself with soot, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat’s hair, so that it was impossible to recognise him, and went to the parade ground, where the Governor had already been riding about a long time.

Who acts: harm, Governor · What happens: dress, dye, put, be, recognise, go · To what, where: harm, rags, wig, parade ground

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 (harm, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rags	case
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dyed	punct
8	dyed	dye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 dyed	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 soot	case
11	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dyed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dressed	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 wig	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wig	det
17	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beard	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beard	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beard	amod
21	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wig	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 hair	case
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hair	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 goat	case
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beard	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 impossible	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 impossible	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 impossible	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impossible	cop
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 put	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 recognise	mark
33	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 impossible	csubj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 recognise	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
40	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ground	compound
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 riding	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 riding	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Governor	det
45	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 riding	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 riding	aux
47	already	already	ADV	_	49 riding	advmod
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 riding	aux
49	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 went	advcl
50	about	about	ADP	_	53 time	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 time	det
52	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 time	amod
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 riding	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	harm	harm	rags	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	dye	past	harm not said here	harm			with soot	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	put	participle	harm not said here		a wig and a great beard of goat's hair			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on wig=Destination
4	is	past					impossible property	tree rules
5	recognise	to-infinitive		harm				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	go	past	harm not said here		the parade ground			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location
7	ride	past · perfect · progressive	the Governor			time		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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