The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 223
But the Governor again put him off with fine words, and only gave him three hundred dollars, saying that he must do one more masterpiece of skill, and if he were but able to do that he should have her.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: put off, give, say, do, be, have · To what, where: hole, hundred dollars, Governor, one more masterpiece, woman · 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), 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 | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Governor | det |
| 3 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 gave | advmod |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dollars | nummod |
| 18 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gave | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 masterpiece | nummod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 masterpiece | amod |
| 27 | masterpiece | masterpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 skill | case |
| 29 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 masterpiece | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 able | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 able | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 able | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 able | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 able | cop |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 able | cc |
| 36 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 put | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 do | mark |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | xcomp |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 have | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 do | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | infinitive | the Governor | hole | again | with fine words | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | ||
| 2 | give | past | hundred dollars | Governor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do | must | Governor | one more masterpiece of skill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent masterpiece=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Governor | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | Governor not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | have | should | Governor | woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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