The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 91

Then he recognised him and said, ‘But what trade have you taken to that has made you such a great man in so short a time?’

Who acts: man, you · What happens: recognise, say, take, make · To what, where: gentleman, great man, that · 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 (man, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 recognised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recognised	nsubj
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recognised	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognised	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 taken	obl
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 taken	nsubj
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
15	to	to	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 made	nsubj:pass
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 taken	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 man	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl:unmarked
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 short	case
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 short	advmod
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 taken	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 short	obl:unmarked
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 recognised	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	recognise	past	man	gentleman	then	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	present · perfect	you	such great man		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	present · perfect · passive		that		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Product

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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