The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 219

But time passed, and it grew later and later, and still the man did not come back, and at last the Governor grew so weary of keeping his finger in the tap-hole that he took it out.

Who acts: best, man, last, tap hole · What happens: pass, grow, not come back, keep, take out · To what, where: finger, tap hole, best

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 (best, man, last, tap hole), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 passed	cc
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl:unmarked
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grew	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 later	cc
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 later	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grew	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grew	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	nsubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Governor	det
25	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 last	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 weary	advmod
28	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	xcomp
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 keeping	mark
30	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 weary	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keeping	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 hole	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hole	det
35	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hole	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 tap	punct
37	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keeping	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 took	nsubj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 took	nsubj
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hole	acl:relcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 took	obj
42	out	out	ADP	_	40 took	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	best = good				late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not come back	past · do-support	the man			still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	last				weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	gerund	last not said here	Governor's finger	the tap hole			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in hole=Location
6	take out	past	the tap hole	best = good				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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