The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 238
So the Governor got up and went downstairs, and as soon as he had gone out through the door, the Master Thief stole in and went straight upstairs to the woman.
Who acts: Governor, Master Thief · What happens: get up, go, go out, steal in · To what, where: door
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, Master 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 | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Governor | det |
| 3 | Governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gone | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 gone | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 got | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 gone | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stole | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Thief | det |
| 23 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Thief | compound |
| 24 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stole | nsubj |
| 25 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 stole | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stole | conj |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 upstairs | advmod |
| 30 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 woman | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 woman | det |
| 33 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Governor | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the Governor not said here | downstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past · perfect | Governor | the door | soon property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | steal in | past | the Master Thief | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | the Master Thief not said here | to the woman; upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location |
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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