The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 114

‘I told her that if she knew of any place convenient that I could leave the child safely I would do it, rather than it should be killed by such a monster.

Who acts: I, woman, monster · What happens: tell, know, leave, do, kill · To what, where: woman, child, castle · 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 (I, woman, monster), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 convenient	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 knew	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 convenient	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	obl
12	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 leave	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 leave	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 leave	aux
16	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 convenient	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leave	obj
19	safely	safely	ADV	_	16 leave	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 killed	punct
25	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 killed	cc
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 rather	fixed
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 killed	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 killed	aux:pass
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 do	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 monster	case
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 monster	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 monster	det
34	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 killed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	woman			of any place	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus
3	leave	could	I	the child		safely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	do	would	I	castle			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	kill	should · passive	such monster	castle			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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