The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 208
When the Master Thief got there the mare went along so slowly and quietly that the cart hardly seemed to move from the spot.
Who acts: Master Thief, mare, cart · What happens: get, go along, seem, move · To what, where: spot
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, mare, cart), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 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 | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 slowly | advmod |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quietly | cc |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 12 slowly | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cart | det |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spot | det |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 move | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Master Thief | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go along | past | the mare | along, slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the cart | hardly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | the cart not said here | the spot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory |
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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