The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 125

When the robber got home and found no dog he thought ‘He must have gone back to his old master,’ and, though night had already fallen, he went off after him.

Who acts: robber, dog · What happens: get, find, think, go back, fall, go off · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, dog), 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	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robber	det
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
13	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	ccomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 master	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 master	amod
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 fallen	mark
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fallen	obl:unmarked
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fallen	aux
29	already	already	ADV	_	30 fallen	advmod
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 went	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fallen	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 went	compound:prt
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the robber			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	the robber not said here	no dog			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	think speech: other	past	dog				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go back	must · perfect	dog			to dog's old master result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to master=Result
5	fall	past · perfect	dog not said here		night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go off	past	dog		after Master		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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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