The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 80

When they were well out of the house, the first thing that he did was to drive the oxen out on the road, whereupon they all ran home again to the man from whom he had stolen them, and right glad was the husbandman to see them.

Who acts: robbers, thing, first thing, man, house · What happens: be, do, run, steal, see · To what, where: house, first thing, road, robbers, husbandman

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, thing, first thing, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 house	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 house	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 husbandman	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drive	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 did	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drive	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drive	mark
18	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 house	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oxen	det
20	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drive	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	18 drive	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 road	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drive	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
26	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	29 ran	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 they	det
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drive	parataxis
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 whom	case
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 man	nmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stolen	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stolen	aux
39	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 whom	acl:relcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stolen	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 glad	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 glad	cc
43	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 glad	amod
44	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	conj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 husbandman	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 husbandman	det
47	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
48	to	to	PART	_	49 see	mark
49	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 husbandman	acl
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 see	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 husbandman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	robbers = robber		the house		well property	tree rules
2	do	past	thing	the first thing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is	past	the first thing		the road		drive property	tree rules
4	run	past	robbers = robber			again	to the man result; home, whereupon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result
5	steal	past · perfect	man	robbers = robber				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
6	be		robbers = robber not said here					tree rules
7	is a	past	the house	the husbandman				tree rules
8	see	to-infinitive		robbers = robber				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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