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title: On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel, and bef… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel, and before the Priest was put into the sack he fell on his knees and thanked him; but no sooner was the Priest safely inside it than the Master Thief began to drag him away over stocks and stones. Who acts: Master Thief, Priest. A sentence
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 141

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On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel, and before the Priest was put into the sack he fell on his knees and thanked him; but no sooner was the Priest safely inside it than the Master Thief began to drag him away over stocks and stones.

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**Who acts:** Master Thief, Priest · **What happens:** come, put, fall, thank, be, begin · **To what, where:** Priest, sack, knees, angel, stocks

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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 (Master Thief, Priest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:9:141
# text = On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel, and before the Priest was put into the sack he fell on his knees and thanked him; but no sooner was the Priest safely inside it than the Master Thief began to drag him away over stocks and stones.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
38	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
45	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	stocks	stock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Master Thief |  |  |  | night | as a angel; once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive |  | the Priest |  | the sack |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Priest |  |  | angel's knees |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Priest *not said here* |  | angel |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the Priest |  | sack |  | than the Master Thief; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the Priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **drag away** | to-infinitive | the Priest *not said here* | angel |  | stocks and stones |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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.

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**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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