The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 210
Then the mare pulled a little forward again, and it moved with such difficulty that the Governor had not the least idea that this was the Master Thief.
Who acts: mare, spot, Governor, this · What happens: pull, move, have, be · To what, where: little, least idea, Master Thief
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 (mare, spot, Governor, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mare | det |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pulled | obj |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 difficulty | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 difficulty | amod |
| 15 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Governor | det |
| 18 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 idea | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 idea | det |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 idea | amod |
| 23 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 Thief | mark |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Thief | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Thief | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Thief | det |
| 28 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Thief | compound |
| 29 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 idea | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the mare | a little | then; again | forward property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||
| 2 | move | past | spot | with such difficulty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Governor | the least idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the Master Thief | tree rules |
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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