The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 74

He knew them to be his wife’s brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musketeer, so that he ran away immediately to save himself; but the two brothers pursued so close that they overtook him before he could get to the steps of the porch, when they ran their swords through his body and left him dead.

Who acts: gate, two brothers, brothers · What happens: know, be, run away, save, pursue, overtake · To what, where: horsemen, brothers, gate, swords, body, porch

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, two brothers, brothers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	9 brothers	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 brothers	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brothers	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 wife	case
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dragoon	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dragoon	nummod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dragoon	det
13	dragoon	dragoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brothers	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 musketeer	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 musketeer	amod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 musketeer	det
18	musketeer	musketeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dragoon	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 ran	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 save	mark
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ran	advcl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 save	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 pursued	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 pursued	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 brothers	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 brothers	nummod
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 pursued	nsubj
34	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 close	advmod
36	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pursued	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 overtook	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 overtook	nsubj
39	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 close	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 overtook	obj
41	before	before	SCONJ	_	44 get	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 get	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 get	aux
44	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 overtook	advcl
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 steps	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 steps	det
47	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 get	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 porch	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 porch	det
50	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 steps	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 ran	punct
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 ran	advmod
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 ran	nsubj
54	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pursued	conj
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 swords	nmod:poss
56	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 ran	obj
57	through	through	ADP	_	59 body	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 body	nmod:poss
59	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ran	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 left	cc
61	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pursued	conj
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 left	obj
63	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 left	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	gate	horsemen = horseman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive		gate's wife's brothers			tree rules
3	run away	past	gate			away, immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	save	to-infinitive	gate not said here	gate			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	pursue	past	the two brothers			close property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	overtake	past	brothers = brother	gate			tree rules
7	get	could	gate			to the steps of the porch result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to step=Result
8	run	past	brothers = brother	horsemen's swords	gate's body		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sword=Theme through body=Trajectory
9	leave	past	the two brothers not said here	gate		dead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	step			the porch			nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

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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