The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 217

So the man said that if he would do that he would go, but he begged the Governor to be very careful to put his finger into the tap-hole the moment he took his out.

Who acts: man · What happens: say, do, go, beg, be, put · To what, where: Governor, finger, tap hole, moment · 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 (man), 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 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	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	_	9 do	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 do	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Governor	det
19	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	23 careful	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 careful	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 careful	advmod
23	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 begged	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 put	mark
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 careful	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 finger	nmod:poss
27	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	32 hole	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hole	det
30	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hole	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tap	punct
32	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl:unmarked
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 moment	acl:relcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 out	nmod:poss
38	out	out	ADP	_	36 took	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	man						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	would	man						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	man		the Governor				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent governor=Recipient
5	is	to-infinitive	man not said here					careful property	tree rules
6	put	to-infinitive	man not said here	Governor's finger		the tap hole	moment		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
7	take out	past	man	the moment not said here					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Theme

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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