The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 39

But the clever servant had taken his master’s place, and when the maid came he tore off the cloak she had wrapped herself in and hunted her off with a whip.

Who acts: maid, poison · What happens: take, come, tore off, wrap in, hunt off · To what, where: clever servant, cloak, poison

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, poison), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 taken	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 master	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tore	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tore	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maid	det
15	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tore	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tore	nsubj
18	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 tore	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cloak	det
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tore	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wrapped	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wrapped	aux
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tore	parataxis
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 wrapped	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	24 wrapped	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hunted	cc
28	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wrapped	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hunted	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	28 hunted	compound:prt
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 whip	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 whip	det
33	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hunted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		the clever servant		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination
2	come	past	the maid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tore off	past	maid	the cloak		tree rules
4	wrap in	past · perfect	poison	poison		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
5	hunt off	past	poison not said here	poison	with a whip	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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