The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 204

So the Governor said that he would see what he could do, and then he said that on a certain day he would ride out to a great common where they drilled the soldiers.

Who acts: Governor, thieves · What happens: say, see, do, ride out, drill · To what, where: great common, soldiers · 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Governor	det
3	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 ride	mark
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ride	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ride	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 ride	aux
25	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 ride	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 common	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 common	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 common	amod
30	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ride	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 drilled	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drilled	nsubj
33	drilled	drill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 common	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 soldiers	det
35	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drilled	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Governor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	would	Governor					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	could	Governor					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	Governor			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ride out	would	Governor		a great common	day	out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to common=Trajectory
6	drill	past	thieves = thief	the soldiers				vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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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