The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 104

But while they were busy inspecting the corpse and the vault to see what they could miss, I slipped out, and, once away, and still away; but they never had the Black Thief in their power since.’

Who acts: guards, I · What happens: be, inspect, see, miss, slip out, not have · To what, where: corpse, Black Thief, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 slipped	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 busy	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 busy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 slipped	advcl
6	inspecting	inspect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 busy	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corpse	det
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inspecting	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vault	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vault	det
11	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corpse	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inspecting	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 miss	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 miss	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 miss	aux
17	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 slipped	nsubj
20	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 slipped	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 away	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 away	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 away	punct
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	20 slipped	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 away	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 away	cc
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 away	advmod
30	away	away	ADV	_	20 slipped	compound:prt
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 had	advmod
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slipped	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Thief	det
37	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Thief	compound
38	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 power	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 power	nmod:poss
41	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obl
42	since	since	ADV	_	35 had	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 slipped	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	guards = guard			busy property	tree rules
2	inspect	gerund	guards = guard not said here	the corpse and the vault			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	guards = guard not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	miss	could	guards = guard				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	slip out	past	I			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	not have	past	guards = guard	the Black Thief	guards's power	since property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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