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The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 49

So he did this; he went home and took the ox without his wife’s knowing about it, and went on his way to the town with it.

Who acts: man · What happens: do, go, take, know · To what, where: this, ox, way

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

advmodnsubjobjpunctnsubjparataxisadvmodccconjdetobjmarknmod:possnmod:posscaseadvclcaseoblpunctccconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctrootSoADVhePRONdidVERBthisPRON;PUNCThePRONwentVERBhomeADVandCCONJtookVERBtheDEToxNOUNwithoutSCONJhisPRONwifeNOUN’sPARTknowingVERBaboutADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBonADPhisPRONwayNOUNtoADPtheDETtownNOUNwithADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 didadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 didnsubj
3diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 didobj
5;;PUNCT_7 wentpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 wentnsubj
7wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 didparataxis
8homehomeADV_7 wentadvmod
9andandCCONJ_10 tookcc
10tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 wentconj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 oxdet
12oxoxNOUNNumber=Sing10 tookobj
13withoutwithoutSCONJ_17 knowingmark
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 wifenmod:poss
15wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing17 knowingnmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 wifecase
17knowingknowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 tookadvcl
18aboutaboutADP_19 itcase
19ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 knowingobl
20,,PUNCT_22 wentpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 wentcc
22wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 didconj
23ononADP_25 waycase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 waynmod:poss
25waywayNOUNNumber=Sing22 wentobl
26totoADP_28 towncase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 towndet
28towntownNOUNNumber=Sing25 waynmod
29withwithADP_30 itcase
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 townnmod
31..PUNCT_3 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastmanthisvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2gopastmanhome propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3takepastman not said herethe oxvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
4knowgerundman not said hereabout shoevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
5gopastman not said hereman's way to the town with shoevn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=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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