The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 157

When the Governor learnt what had happened to the Priest he laughed till he nearly killed himself, but when the Master Thief came and wanted to have his daughter according to promise, he once more gave him nothing but fine words, and said, ‘You must give me one more proof of your skill, so that I can really judge of your worth.

Who acts: Governor, Master Thief, daughter, Priest, You, I · What happens: learn, happen, laugh, kill, come, want · To what, where: Priest, daughter, nothing, Governor, one more proof, me · 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 (Governor, Master Thief, daughter, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 learnt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Governor	det
3	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learnt	nsubj
4	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 learnt	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Priest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Priest	det
10	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 happened	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	nsubj
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 killed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 killed	nsubj
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 killed	advmod
16	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	ccomp
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 killed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Thief	det
22	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Thief	compound
23	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wanted	cc
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 have	mark
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 have	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 promise	mark
33	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 according	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gave	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gave	nsubj
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 gave	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 gave	advmod
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gave	iobj
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 gave	obj
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 words	cc
42	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 words	amod
43	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 nothing	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gave	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 give	punct
48	‘	'	PUNCT	_	51 give	punct
49	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 give	nsubj
50	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 give	aux
51	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 said	ccomp
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 give	iobj
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 proof	nummod
54	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 proof	amod
55	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 give	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 skill	case
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 skill	nmod:poss
58	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 proof	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 judge	punct
60	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	65 judge	mark
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 so	fixed
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 judge	nsubj
63	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 judge	aux
64	really	really	ADV	_	65 judge	advmod
65	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 give	parataxis
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 worth	case
67	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 worth	nmod:poss
68	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 judge	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the Governor				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect				to the Priest	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	past	Governor				tree rules
4	kill	past	Governor	Priest		nearly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	come	past	the Master Thief				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	want	past	the Master Thief not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	Priest's daughter			tree rules
8	accord	gerund	Priest's daughter not said here				tree rules
9	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	Priest's daughter not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	give	past	Priest	nothing	Governor	once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
11	say speech: assert	past	Priest not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	give	must	You	one more proof of your skill	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient proof=Theme
13	judge	can	I			of your worth	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of worth=Theme
14	proof			your skill			nom proof «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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