The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 130

The second robber carefully kept his own counsel, and fetched the dog secretly back from the shoemaker, and so on through the whole band.

Who acts: second robber · What happens: keep, fetch · To what, where: own counsel, dog

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 (second robber), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robber	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 robber	amod
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 counsel	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 counsel	amod
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fetched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fetched	cc
11	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetched	obj
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	15 back	advmod
15	back	back	ADV	_	11 fetched	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 shoemaker	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoemaker	det
18	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 on	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 on	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 on	advmod
22	on	on	ADV	_	11 fetched	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 band	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 band	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 band	amod
26	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 on	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the second robber	dog's own counsel				carefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
2	fetch	past		the dog					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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