The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 98
‘You must go to the Governor and beg for his daughter—there is no help,’ said the youth.
Who acts: You, help · What happens: go, be, say · To what, where: Governor, help, youth · 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 (You, help), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 is | parataxis |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Governor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Governor | det |
| 7 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beg | cc |
| 9 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Governor | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 help | det |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | You | the Governor and beg | for Governor's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to governor=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | no help | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | no help | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
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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