The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 218
So the Governor said that he would do his very best, and the Master Thief got on the Governor’s horse.
Who acts: Governor, Master Thief · What happens: say, do, get · To what, where: best · 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, Master Thief), 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 do | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 best | nmod:poss |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 best | advmod |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Thief | det |
| 15 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Thief | compound |
| 16 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Governor | det |
| 20 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Governor | case |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | do | would | Governor | Governor's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the Master Thief | on the Governor's horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source |
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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