The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 196

In the morning when the Governor came to look after his stable boys they were just beginning to come to again.

Who acts: Governor, thieves · What happens: come, look, begin · To what, where: stable boys

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, thieves), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Governor	det
6	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	xcomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 boys	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boys	nmod:poss
12	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boys	amod
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beginning	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beginning	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 beginning	advmod
17	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 boys	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 beginning	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 again	case
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the Governor		morning	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	the Governor not said here		after Governor's stable boys	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	begin	past · progressive	thieves = thief	Governor's stable boys not said here		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	thieves = thief not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to again=Initial_Location

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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