The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 107

‘That happens well,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘for I like him best myself, and have reserved the most curious passage for the last on his account.’

Who acts: That, I, Thief · What happens: happen, say, like, reserve, account · To what, where: Thief, curious passage · 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 (That, I, Thief), 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	_	7 says	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 happens	nsubj
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 happens	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Thief	det
9	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sloan	case
11	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Thief	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 like	obj
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 like	obj
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 best	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reserved	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reserved	cc
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reserved	aux
23	reserved	reserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 like	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 passage	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 curious	advmod
26	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 passage	amod
27	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reserved	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 last	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 last	det
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 passage	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 account	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 account	nmod:poss
33	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 last	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	present	That		well property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		the Thief of Sloan		tree rules
3	like	present	I	Thief		tree rules
4	reserve	present · perfect		the curious passage	for the last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent passage=Theme for last=Beneficiary
5	account		Thief			nom account «communication transitive»: 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 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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