The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 94
Now the Governor of the province lived by his father’s cottage, and this Governor had such a large house and so much money that he did not even know how much it was, and he had a daughter too who was both pretty and dainty, and good and wise.
Who acts: Governor, money · What happens: live, have, not know, be · To what, where: large house, daughter, dainty
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, money), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Governor | det |
| 3 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 province | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 province | det |
| 6 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Governor | nmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 cottage | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Governor | det |
| 16 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 house | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 money | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 money | amod |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 know | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 know | advmod |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | advcl |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 know | obj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 much | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 much | cop |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 had | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 daughter | det |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 had | advmod |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 dainty | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 dainty | cop |
| 45 | both | both | ADV | _ | 46 pretty | advmod |
| 46 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 48 dainty | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 dainty | cc |
| 48 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | parataxis |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 good | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 good | cc |
| 51 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 dainty | amod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 wise | cc |
| 53 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 good | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Governor of the province | now | by Governor's father's cottage | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cottage=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | this Governor | such large house and much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Governor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | money | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Governor | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | dainty | pretty property | tree rules |
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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