The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 140

‘Well,’ says the Knight of the Glen, ‘if that’s the case I bestow you my steed rather than this brave fellow should die; so you may go when you please, only remember to call and see me betimes, that we may know each other well.’

Who acts: that, I, you, brave fellow, we · What happens: say, be, bestow, steed, die, go · To what, where: Knight, case, me, each · 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, you, brave fellow), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Knight	det
7	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Glen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Glen	det
10	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Knight	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 case	mark
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 case	nsubj
15	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 case	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 case	det
17	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ‘	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bestow	nsubj
19	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 case	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 steed	nsubj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 steed	nmod:poss
22	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bestow	ccomp
23	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 die	cc
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 rather	fixed
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fellow	det
26	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
27	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 die	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 die	aux
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 steed	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 you	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	advcl
37	please	please	INTJ	_	34 go	discourse
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 remember	punct
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 remember	advmod
40	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 go	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 call	mark
42	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 remember	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 see	cc
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 call	conj
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 see	obj
46	betimes	betimes	ADV	_	44 see	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 know	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 know	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 know	nsubj
50	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 know	aux
51	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 call	conj
52	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	51 know	obj
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 each	fixed
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 know	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the Knight of the Glen		tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	that	the case		tree rules
3	bestow	present	I	the case not said here		tree rules
4	steed		you			tree rules
5	die	should	this brave fellow			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	go	may	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	remember	infinitive	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	call	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	see	infinitive	you not said here	me	betimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
10	know	may	we	each	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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