The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 67
While he was going, and looking up at every tree as he went, the youth leapt down and took his ox and went off with it.
Who acts: man, youth · What happens: go, look up, leapt down, take, go off · To what, where: ox
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, youth), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 leapt | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looking | cc |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 going | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 looking | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leapt | nsubj |
| 18 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 leapt | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 leapt | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ox | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 went | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | man not said here | at every tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leapt down | infinitive | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | past | the youth not said here | man's ox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go off | past | the youth not said here | with youth | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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