The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 118

So again they wanted to go out and catch it, but the Governor again told them that it was of no use to try.

Who acts: people, Governor, kitchen · What happens: want, go out, catch, tell, be, try · To what, where: kitchen, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, Governor, kitchen), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catch	cc
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Governor	det
14	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
15	again	again	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 use	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 use	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 use	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 use	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 use	det
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 try	mark
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	people			again		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	infinitive	people not said here	kitchen				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Governor		people	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is	past	kitchen				of no use	tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive	the Governor not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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