The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 130

‘You must first give some more samples of your skill,’ said the Governor, trying to speak him fair, ‘for what you did to-day was no such very great thing after all.

Who acts: You, Governor · What happens: give, say, try, speak, do, be · To what, where: more samples, Governor, such great thing, skill · 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 (You, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 samples	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 samples	amod
8	samples	sample	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 skill	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skill	nmod:poss
11	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 samples	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Governor	det
16	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trying	punct
18	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trying	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 speak	obj
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 speak	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thing	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 thing	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 thing	obl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 to	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 did	obl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thing	cop
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 thing	det
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 great	advmod
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trying	obl
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 thing	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	must	You	some more samples of your skill		first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Governor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	gerund	the Governor not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Governor not said here	Governor		fair property	tree rules
5	do	past	you		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		no such great thing	after all		tree rules
7	sample			your skill			nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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