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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

advmodcasedetobldetcompoundnsubjccconjobjnsubjauxccomppunctccconjmarkxcompdetnmod:posscaseobjadvmodauxaux:passadvclpunctrootLaterADVinADPtheDETdayNOUNtheDETMasterPROPNThiefPROPNcameVERBandCCONJrelatedVERBwhatPRONhePRONhadAUXdoneVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwantedVERBtoPARThaveVERBtheDETGovernorPROPN’sPARTdaughterNOUNasADVhadAUXbeenAUXpromisedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LaterlateADVDegree=Cmp8 cameadvmod
2ininADP_4 daycase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 daydet
4daydayNOUNNumber=Sing8 cameobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Thiefdet
6MasterMasterPROPNNumber=Sing7 Thiefcompound
7ThiefThiefPROPNNumber=Sing8 camensubj
8camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9andandCCONJ_10 relatedcc
10relatedrelateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 cameconj
11whatwhatPRONPronType=Int14 doneobj
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 donensubj
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 doneaux
14donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 relatedccomp
15,,PUNCT_17 wantedpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 wantedcc
17wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 cameconj
18totoPART_19 havemark
19havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf17 wantedxcomp
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Governordet
21GovernorGovernorPROPNNumber=Sing23 daughternmod:poss
22’s'sPART_21 Governorcase
23daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing19 haveobj
24asasADV_27 promisedadvmod
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 promisedaux
26beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part27 promisedaux:pass
27promisedpromiseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 haveadvcl
28..PUNCT_8 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe Master Thiefdaylate propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2relatepastthe Master Thief not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3dopast · perfectGovernorvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4wantpastthe Master Thief not said herevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5have not said to happento-infinitivethe Master Thief not said herethe Governor's daughtervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
6promise speech: promisepast · perfect · passivethe Master Thief not said herevn 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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