The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 139

They all returned thanks on their knees, and the Black Thief told him the reason they attempted to steal the Steed of Bells, and the necessity they were under in going home.

Who acts: Princes, Black Thief, necessity · What happens: return, tell, attempt, steal, go · To what, where: thanks, knees, reason, danger, Steed · 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 (Princes, Black Thief, necessity), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thanks	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Thief	det
11	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Thief	compound
12	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 attempted	nsubj
18	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 steal	mark
20	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 attempted	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Steed	det
22	Steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 steal	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Bells	case
24	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Steed	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 going	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 necessity	det
28	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	nsubj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 going	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 going	aux
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 going	mark
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 going	mark
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 told	advcl
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 going	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Princes = prince	thanks		Princes's knees		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Black Thief	the reason	danger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Topic
3	attempt	past	Princes = prince	the reason not said here				tree rules
4	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here	the Steed of Bells				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steed=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	the necessity				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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