The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 48

But all at once it came into his head to go home and get the other ox, and drive it to the town, and take good care that his old wife knew nothing about it.

Who acts: shoe, old wife · What happens: come, go, get, drive, take, know · To what, where: head, other ox, shoe, town, good care, nothing

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 (shoe, old wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	all	all	ADV	_	4 once	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 came	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ox	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ox	amod
17	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drive	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drive	cc
20	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drive	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 town	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drive	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 care	amod
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 knew	mark
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wife	amod
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 take	advcl
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 knew	obj
36	about	about	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 nothing	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	shoe		man's head	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
2	go	to-infinitive	shoe not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	shoe not said here	the other ox			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus
4	drive	infinitive	shoe not said here	shoe	the town		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to town=Trajectory
5	take	infinitive	shoe not said here	good care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	know	past	man's old wife	nothing		about shoe	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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