The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 113
The Governor himself and every one in the house was in the kitchen, keeping watch over the joint.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: kitchen, watch, joint
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 (Governor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Governor | det |
| 2 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kitchen | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Governor | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 one | cc |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 himself | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kitchen | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 kitchen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kitchen | det |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 kitchen | conj |
| 16 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 joint | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 joint | det |
| 19 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kitchen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Governor man | the kitchen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the Governor man not said here | watch | the joint | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over joint=Location |
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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