The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 42

Then the youth picked up the shoe and hurried off away through the wood as fast as he was able, to get in front of the man, and then put the shoe in the road before him again.

Who acts: youth, fellow · What happens: pick up, hurry off, be, get, put · To what, where: shoe, wood, front, road

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, fellow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 picked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoe	det
7	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurried	cc
9	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 picked	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 hurried	compound:prt
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 hurried	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurried	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 fast	advmod
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 picked	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fast	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 picked	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 man	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 front	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 put	advmod
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shoe	det
34	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 road	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 road	det
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
38	before	before	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obl
40	again	again	ADV	_	32 put	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	participle	the youth	the shoe		then	fast property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic
2	hurry off	participle	the youth not said here		the wood		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
3	is	past	fellow				able property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	the youth not said here		front of the man			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	put	infinitive	the youth not said here	the shoe	the road	before fellow; then; again		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme in road=Destination

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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