The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 70
Two men must have known it; we have killed one, we must now find the other.
Who acts: we · What happens: know, kill, find · To what, where: Two men, we, other
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 (we), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | aux |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 find | advmod |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must · perfect · passive | Two men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | we | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer one=Result | |||||
| 3 | find | must | we | the other | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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 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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