The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 103

But the man was still unwilling, so the Master Thief followed him, threatening him with a great birch stick, till he went weeping and wailing through the door to the Governor of the province.

Who acts: man, Master Thief · What happens: be, follow, threaten, go, weep, wail · To what, where: man, Governor, door

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 (man, Master Thief), 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 unwilling	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unwilling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unwilling	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 unwilling	advmod
6	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 followed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 followed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Thief	det
10	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Thief	compound
11	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 followed	nsubj
12	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unwilling	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 followed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threatening	punct
15	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 followed	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threatening	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 stick	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stick	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stick	amod
20	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stick	compound
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threatening	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unwilling	conj
26	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 went	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wailing	cc
28	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 weeping	conj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wailing	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Governor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Governor	det
34	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 wailing	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 province	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 province	det
37	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Governor	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man				still	unwilling property	tree rules
2	follow	past	the Master Thief	man					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	threaten	gerund	the Master Thief not said here	man				with a great birch stick	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	go	past	man						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	weep	gerund	man not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wail	gerund	man not said here		the Governor of the province	the door			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to governor=Recipient

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.

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