The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 228

So late at night the Master Thief went and cut down a thief who was hanging on the gallows, laid him on his own shoulders, and took him away with him.

Who acts: Master Thief, thief · What happens: go, cut down, hang, lay, take away · To what, where: thief, gallows, Governor, own shoulders

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, thief), 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	_	2 late	advmod
2	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 went	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 late	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Thief	det
6	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Thief	compound
7	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thief	det
13	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hanging	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hanging	aux
16	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thief	acl:relcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 gallows	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gallows	det
19	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hanging	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 shoulders	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shoulders	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shoulders	amod
26	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Master Thief			late property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down	participle	the Master Thief not said here	a thief			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thief=Product
3	hang	past · progressive	a thief		the gallows		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location
4	lay	past	the Master Thief not said here	Governor	Governor's own shoulders		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shoulder=Destination
5	take away	past	the Master Thief not said here	Governor		with Governor; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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