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The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 235

At last he got a chance and fired, and the dead body fell with a loud thud to the ground, and down went the Master Thief too, as fast as he could.

Who acts: Governor, dead body · What happens: get, fire, fall, go · To what, where: chance, last

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, dead body), 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

caseoblnsubjdetobjccaclpunctccdetamodnsubjconjcasedetamodoblcasedetoblpunctccadvmodconjdetcompoundxcompadvmodpunctadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclpunctrootAtADPlastNOUNhePRONgotVERBaDETchanceNOUNandCCONJfiredVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETdeadADJbodyNOUNfellVERBwithADPaDETloudADJthudNOUNtoADPtheDETgroundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdownADVwentVERBtheDETMasterPROPNThiefPROPNtooADV,PUNCTasADVfastADVasSCONJhePRONcouldAUX.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastNOUNNumber=Sing4 gotobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gotnsubj
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 chancedet
6chancechanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 gotobj
7andandCCONJ_8 firedcc
8firedfireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 chanceacl
9,,PUNCT_14 fellpunct
10andandCCONJ_14 fellcc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 bodydet
12deaddeadADJDegree=Pos13 bodyamod
13bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing14 fellnsubj
14fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gotconj
15withwithADP_18 thudcase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 thuddet
17loudloudADJDegree=Pos18 thudamod
18thudthudNOUNNumber=Sing14 fellobl
19totoADP_21 groundcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 grounddet
21groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing14 fellobl
22,,PUNCT_25 wentpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 wentcc
24downdownADV_25 wentadvmod
25wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gotconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 Thiefdet
27MasterMasterPROPNNumber=Sing28 Thiefcompound
28ThiefThiefPROPNNumber=Sing25 wentxcomp
29tootooADV_25 wentadvmod
30,,PUNCT_32 fastpunct
31asasADV_32 fastadvmod
32fastfastADVDegree=Pos25 wentadvmod
33asasSCONJ_35 couldmark
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 couldnsubj
35couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin32 fastadvcl
36..PUNCT_4 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastGovernora chancelastvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent chance=Theme at last=Asset
2fireparticiplea chance not said herevn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3fallpastthe dead bodywith a loud thud; to the groundvn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4gopastGovernor not said heredown, fast propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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