The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 35

“That I expect,” said Cassim; “but I must know where to find the treasure, otherwise I will discover all, and you will lose all.”

Who acts: That, Cassim, you · What happens: expect, say, know, find, discover, lose · To what, where: treasure, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Cassim, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 expect	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 expect	nsubj
4	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 find	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 treasure	det
19	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 discover	punct
21	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	24 discover	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 discover	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 discover	aux
24	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 discover	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lose	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lose	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 lose	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lose	aux
30	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	conj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 lose	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect in a quote	present	That			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Cassim			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	must	Cassim			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find in a quote	to-infinitive		the treasure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic
5	discover in a quote	future	Cassim	all	otherwise property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic
6	lose in a quote	future	you	all		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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