The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 71

To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death.

Who acts: strange manner, Cassim · What happens: be, go, dress, discover, kill, talk · To what, where: city

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 (strange manner, Cassim), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bold	obl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 end	flat
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bold	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bold	cop
9	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 go	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 artful	cc
11	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bold	conj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 city	acl
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 traveler	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 traveler	det
20	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dressed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 discover	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 discover	cc
23	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 killed	nsubj:pass
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 killed	nsubj:pass
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	aux
27	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 discover	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talk	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 talk	cc
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 talk	mark
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 talk	compound
32	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 manner	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 manner	det
35	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 manner	amod
36	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 talk	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 death	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 death	nmod:poss
39	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 manner	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				to this end	bold property	tree rules
2	be							tree rules
3	go	must			the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location
4	dress	participle		the city not said here			as a traveler	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	discover	infinitive						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	kill	present · perfect · passive						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	talk		the strange manner of Cassim's death					nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	die		Cassim					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 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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