The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 44

‘I will just run back again and fetch it now,’ he said to himself, ‘and then I shall take back a pair of good shoes to the old woman, and she may perhaps throw a kind word to me for once.’

Who acts: I, fellow, woman · What happens: run back, fetch, say, take back, throw · To what, where: shoe, fellow, pair, kind word, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, fellow, woman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fetch	cc
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fetch	obj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fetch	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 take	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pair	det
27	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 shoes	case
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shoes	amod
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pair	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 woman	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shoes	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 throw	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 throw	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 throw	nsubj
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 throw	aux
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	40 throw	advmod
40	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 take	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 word	det
42	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 word	amod
43	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 throw	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 throw	obl
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 once	case
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 throw	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run back	future	I			again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	I not said here	shoe		now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	fellow		fellow			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	take back	shall	I	a pair of good shoes to the old woman		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
5	throw	may	woman	a kind word	me		perhaps property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent word=Theme to i=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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