The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 91

At last one night he stole upon some soldiers while they were asleep in a barn and killed them, and persuaded the villagers that if THEY did not kill the other soldiers before morning they would certainly be killed themselves.

Who acts: Lad, friends · What happens: steal, be, kill, persuade, not kill · To what, where: soldiers, barn, friends, villagers

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad, friends), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	compound
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stole	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stole	nsubj
6	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 soldiers	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 soldiers	det
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stole	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 asleep	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asleep	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stole	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 barn	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 barn	det
16	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asleep	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
18	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stole	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 persuaded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 persuaded	cc
22	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stole	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 villagers	det
24	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 persuaded	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 kill	obj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 kill	mark
27	THEY	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 kill	advmod
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 villagers	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 soldiers	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soldiers	amod
33	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kill	obj
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 killed	mark
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 killed	obl:unmarked
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 killed	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 killed	aux
38	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	40 killed	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 killed	aux:pass
40	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 kill	advcl
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 killed	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Lad		some soldiers	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon soldier=Location
2	is	past	friends = friend		a barn		asleep property	tree rules
3	kill	past	Lad not said here	friends = friend				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	persuade	past	Lad not said here	the villagers				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villager=Patient
5	not kill a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	friends = friend	the villagers				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer soldier=Result
6	kill	would · passive		friends = friend		morning	certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer themselves=Result

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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