The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 232
So he took up a rifle which he had laid at his bedside.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: take up, lay · To what, where: rifle, bedside
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), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rifle | det |
| 6 | rifle | rifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laid | aux |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rifle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bedside | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Governor | a rifle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rifle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · perfect · passive | a rifle | Governor's bedside | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at bedside=Destination |
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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