The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 61

Once more the youth did just as he had done twice already; jumped down from the tree, ran by a short cut through the wood, and again hanged himself in the very middle of the road before him.

Who acts: youth, man · What happens: do, jump down, run, hange · To what, where: tree, wood, man, middle

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 (youth, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 did	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 done	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 done	advmod
12	already	already	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 jumped	punct
14	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 jumped	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jumped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jumped	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 cut	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cut	det
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cut	amod
24	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hanged	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hanged	cc
30	again	again	ADV	_	31 hanged	advmod
31	hanged	hange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 hanged	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 middle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 middle	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 middle	advmod
36	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hanged	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 road	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 road	det
39	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 middle	nmod
40	before	before	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hanged	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the youth					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · perfect	man				twice property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump down	past	the youth not said here		the tree		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
4	run	past	the youth not said here		the wood		by a short cut	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cut=Trajectory
5	hange	past	the youth not said here	man	the middle of the road	before man; again		tree rules

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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