The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 246
So off he went with the sheet, and the night-gown too.
Who acts: father · What happens: go · To what, where: night gown
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 (father), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sheet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheet | det |
| 7 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gown | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gown | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gown | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 night | punct |
| 13 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 gown | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | father | the night gown | with the sheet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sheet=Beneficiary |
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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