The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 53

This time he took with him a rope and put it under his arms and tied himself up to a tree, which hung over the road that the man would have to take.

Who acts: thing, tree, man · What happens: take, put, tie up, hang, have · To what, where: rope, arms, thing, 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 (thing, tree, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 arms	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arms	nmod:poss
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tied	cc
16	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 tied	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 tied	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tree	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 have	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hung	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	thing	a rope		time	with man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
2	put	infinitive	thing not said here	rope	thing's arms			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under arm=Destination
3	tie up	past	thing not said here	thing			to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
4	hang	past	a tree		the road			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over road=Location
5	have	would	the man					tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive	the man not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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