The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 36
He put this in the road by which the man must go with his ox, and then went into the wood and hid himself under a bush.
Who acts: man · What happens: put, go, hide · To what, where: this, road, wood, man, bush
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 go | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 road | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ox | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ox | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hid | cc |
| 24 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 hid | obj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 bush | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bush | det |
| 28 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | man | this | the road | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in road=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | must | the man | by the road; with man's ox | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ox=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the wood | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | man | a bush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under bush=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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