The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 221
When he had gone a very little way he met his servant bringing him the horse, for the Master Thief had already taken it home.
Who acts: Governor, servant · What happens: go, meet, bring, take · To what, where: little way, servant, horse, Governor, 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 (Governor, servant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 met | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 servant | acl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bringing | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Thief | det |
| 20 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Thief | compound |
| 21 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 23 | already | already | ADV | _ | 24 taken | advmod |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 met | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taken | obj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 taken | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Governor | a little way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Governor | Governor's servant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Governor's servant not said here | the horse | Governor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination horse=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | the Master Thief | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination |
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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