The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 128
But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor for having allowed himself to be made such a fool of.
Who acts: Priest · What happens: repeat, say, mock, allow, make · To what, where: Governor, fool · 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 (Priest), 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 | _ | 4 repeated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Priest | det |
| 3 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 repeated | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mocked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mocked | cc |
| 11 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Governor | det |
| 13 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mocked | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 allowed | mark |
| 15 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 allowed | aux |
| 16 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 mocked | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 allowed | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 allowed | xcomp |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 fool | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fool | det |
| 23 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fool | case |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | the Priest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mock | past | the Priest not said here | the Governor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | allow | gerund · perfect | the Priest not said here | Governor | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the Priest not said here | such fool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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