The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 95

So the Master Thief was determined to have her to wife, and told his father that he was to go to the Governor, and ask for his daughter for him.

Who acts: Master Thief, father · What happens: be, have, tell, ask · To what, where: woman, father · 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 (Master Thief, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 determined	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
3	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Thief	compound
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 determined	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 determined	cop
6	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 determined	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wife	mark
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 determined	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 go	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Governor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Governor	det
24	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 daughter	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ask	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Master Thief			determined property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	the Master Thief not said here	woman			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past			Governor's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is not said to happen	past	father			to the Governor; go property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	father not said here			for Governor's daughter; for Governor	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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