The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 35

Directly the robber came up to him they seized him exactly as he had foretold and took away all his money.

Who acts: robber, robbers, donkey · What happens: come up, seize, foretell, take away · To what, where: donkey, money

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, robbers, donkey), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robber	det
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	nsubj
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	obj
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 foretold	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 foretold	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 foretold	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 foretold	aux
15	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 seized	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 money	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 money	nmod:poss
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the robber		donkey	directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	seize	past	robbers = robber	donkey			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	foretell	past · perfect	donkey			exactly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	take away	past	robbers = robber not said here	donkey's money		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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