The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 79

So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something which it was not in his power to accomplish, and they all took to the road together, and left him at home alone.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: make up, set, work, do, not be, accomplish · To what, where: minds, something, power, man, home

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 (robbers), 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	_	5 made	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 minds	nmod:poss
8	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 set	mark
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 do	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 power	nsubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 power	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 power	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 power	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 power	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 power	nmod:poss
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 accomplish	mark
24	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 power	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 took	advmod
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
33	together	together	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 left	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 left	cc
36	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 left	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 home	case
39	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 left	obl
40	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 left	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	robbers = robber	robbers's minds		day		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	set	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here	something				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
5	not is	past			man's power			tree rules
6	accomplish	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here					vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	take	past	robbers = robber				to the road result; together property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result
8	leave	past	robbers = robber not said here	man	home		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at home=Location
9	mind		robbers = robber					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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