The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 134

Now, sir knight,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘you see what dangers I came through and always escaped; but, indeed, I am lame for the want of my toe ever since.’

Who acts: you, dangers, I · What happens: say, see, come through, escape, be, want · To what, where: sir knight, lame, toe · 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 (you, dangers, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knight	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knight	compound
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knight	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	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	_	15 see	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 came	obj
17	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
20	through	through	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 escaped	cc
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 escaped	advmod
23	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 came	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 lame	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lame	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 but	punct
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 lame	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 indeed	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lame	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lame	cop
31	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 want	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 want	det
34	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lame	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 toe	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 toe	nmod:poss
37	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 want	nmod
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 since	advmod
39	since	since	ADV	_	31 lame	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		sir knight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
2	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come through	past	dangers		through property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
4	escape	participle	dangers not said here		always property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	I	lame	for the want of my toe; indeed, since property	tree rules
6	want			my toe		nom want «state 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 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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