--- title: So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something which it was not in his power to accomplish, and they all took to the road together, and left him at home alone. Who acts: robbers. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/) / 79 # The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 79 So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something which it was not in his power to accomplish, and they all took to the road together, and left him at home alone. **Who acts:** robbers · **What happens:** make up, set, work, do, not be, accomplish · **To what, where:** minds, something, power, man, home 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 (robbers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:9:79 # text = So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something which it was not in his power to accomplish, and they all took to the road together, and left him at home alone. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 accomplish accomplish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 alone alone ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | past | robbers *= robber* | robbers's minds | | | day | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | | | | man's power | | | tree rules | | 6 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take** | past | robbers *= robber* | | | | | to the road *result*; together *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result | | 8 | **leave** | past | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | man | | home | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at home=Location | | 9 | **mind** | | robbers *= robber* | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/80/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)