The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 35
So the youth set off, taking with him a pretty shoe with a silver buckle that was lying about in the house.
Who acts: youth, silver buckle · What happens: set off, take, lie · To what, where: pretty shoe
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 (youth, silver buckle), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shoe | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoe | amod |
| 12 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 buckle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 buckle | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 buckle | amod |
| 16 | buckle | buckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lying | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lying | aux |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 buckle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle | the youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the youth not said here | a pretty shoe | with man; with a silver buckle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | a silver buckle | about the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about house=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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