The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 229
Then he got hold of a long ladder, set it up against the Governor’s bedroom window, and climbed up and moved the dead man’s head up and down, just as if he were some one who was standing outside and peeping in.
Who acts: Governor, one · What happens: get, set up, climb up, move, be, stand · To what, where: hold, bedroom window, head, long ladder
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, one), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ladder | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ladder | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ladder | amod |
| 8 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Governor | det |
| 15 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 window | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Governor | case |
| 17 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 window | compound |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 climbed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 climbed | cc |
| 21 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 climbed | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 moved | cc |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 climbed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 man | case |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 moved | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 down | cc |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 up | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 one | punct |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 one | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 one | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 one | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 one | cop |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 climbed | obl |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 standing | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 standing | aux |
| 43 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 one | acl:relcl |
| 44 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 43 standing | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 peeping | cc |
| 46 | peeping | peep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 standing | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADV | _ | 46 peeping | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Governor | hold of a long ladder | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | set up | infinitive | Governor not said here | hold | the Governor's bedroom window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against window=Destination | |||
| 3 | climb up | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | move | past | the dead man's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Governor | as some one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | past · progressive | some one | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | peep | gerund | some one not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | hold | a long ladder | 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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