The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 211
He rode straight up to him, and asked if he had seen anyone hiding anywhere about in a wood that was close by.
Who acts: Governor, wood · What happens: ride, ask, see, hide, be · To what, where: harm, anyone, wood
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 (Governor, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:916): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 up | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 seen | obj |
| 15 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 anyone | acl |
| 16 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 hiding | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 hiding | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hiding | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 close | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 close | cop |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | acl:relcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADV | _ | 23 close | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Governor | harm | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Governor not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Governor | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hide | gerund | a wood | about, anywhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a wood | close property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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