The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 222
The following day he went to the Governor and wanted to have his daughter according to promise.
Who acts: Governor, daughter · What happens: follow, go, want, have, accord, promise · To what, where: Governor, daughter
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, daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Governor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Governor | det |
| 8 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 have | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 promise | mark |
| 17 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 according | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | Governor | the Governor | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to governor=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | want | past | Governor not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Governor not said here | Governor's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | Governor's daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | Governor's daughter not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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