The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 43

When the man came with the ox and saw the shoe, he was quite vexed at having been so stupid as to leave the fellow to it lying where it was, instead of bringing it on with him.

Who acts: man, shoe · What happens: come, see, vex, be, leave, lie · To what, where: shoe, man, fellow

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, shoe), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ox	det
7	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoe	det
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vexed	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 vexed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 vexed	aux:pass
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 vexed	advmod
16	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saw	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 stupid	case
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stupid	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 stupid	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 stupid	advmod
21	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vexed	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 leave	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 leave	mark
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 vexed	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fellow	det
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leave	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leave	obl
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 leave	advcl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 was	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bringing	punct
34	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 bringing	mark
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 instead	fixed
36	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 lying	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bringing	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	36 bringing	compound:prt
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bringing	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the man			with the ox	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past		the shoe			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus
3	vex	past · passive		man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	is	gerund · perfect				stupid property	tree rules
5	leave	to-infinitive		the fellow	shoe		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme to it=Recipient
6	lie	gerund					tree rules
7	be	past	shoe				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bring on	gerund		shoe		with fellow	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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