The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 69

He wept and he raged, but at last he took comfort and told himself that the best thing to do was to go home and take the third ox, without letting his wife know anything about it, and then try to sell it so well that he got a good sum of money for it.

Who acts: man, best thing, wife · What happens: weep, rage, take, tell, do, be · To what, where: comfort, last, man, third ox, anything, good sum · Speech: someone speaks here

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, best thing, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 raged	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 raged	nsubj
5	raged	rage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	parataxis
12	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj:outer
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thing	acl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 go	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	ccomp
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ox	det
29	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 ox	amod
30	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 letting	punct
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 letting	mark
33	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 told	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 know	nsubj
36	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 letting	ccomp
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 know	obj
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 anything	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 try	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 try	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 try	advmod
43	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 sell	mark
45	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 try	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sell	obj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 well	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 sell	advmod
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 got	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 got	nsubj
51	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 sell	advcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 sum	det
53	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 sum	amod
54	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 got	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 money	case
56	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sum	nmod
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 money	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	man						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rage	past	man						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	man	comfort		last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme at last=Asset
4	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is not said to happen	past	the best thing					go, home property	tree rules
7	take	infinitive	the best thing not said here	the third ox					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
8	let	gerund	man not said here						tree rules
9	know	present	man's wife	anything				about comfort	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
10	try	infinitive					then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive		comfort				well property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
12	get	past	man	a good sum of money for money					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sum=Stimulus
13	sum			money for money					nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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