The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 200
Later in the day the Master Thief came and related what he had done, and wanted to have the Governor’s daughter as had been promised.
Who acts: Master Thief, Governor · What happens: come, relate, do, 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 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | 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 related | cc |
| 10 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 done | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 related | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | cc |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Governor | det |
| 21 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Governor | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 promised | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 promised | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 promised | aux:pass |
| 27 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 have | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Master Thief | day | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | relate | past | the Master Thief not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Governor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | want | past | the Master Thief not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | 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 | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the Master Thief not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S» |
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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