The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 70
So he went home and took the third ox, and drove it off without his wife knowing anything about it.
Who acts: man, wife · What happens: go, take, drive off, know · To what, where: third ox, sum, anything
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ox | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 ox | amod |
| 9 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drove | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drove | cc |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drove | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 drove | compound:prt |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 18 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 wife | acl |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 knowing | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 anything | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | man not said here | the third ox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive off | past | man not said here | sum | without man's wife | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | know | gerund | man's wife not said here | anything | about sum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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