The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 129

Later in the afternoon the Master Thief came and wanted to have the Governor’s daughter as he had promised.

Who acts: Master Thief, Governor · What happens: come, want, have, promise · To what, where: daughter

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 (Master Thief, 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 came	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 afternoon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Thief	det
6	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Thief	compound
7	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Governor	det
14	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Governor	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 promised	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promised	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 promised	aux
20	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 have	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Master Thief		afternoon	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	the Master Thief not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	the Governor's daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Governor				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

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