The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 43

‘My brothers,’ says he, ‘are now going to travel, and, as I understand, a perilous journey wherein they know not what road to take or what may happen them.

Who acts: bargain, I, Princes · What happens: say, go, travel, understand, not know, take · To what, where: perilous journey, Princes · 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 (bargain, I, Princes), 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 brothers	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brothers	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 says	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 travel	mark
14	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 understand	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 understand	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 understand	nsubj
20	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 travel	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 journey	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 journey	det
23	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 journey	amod
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travel	conj
25	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	27 know	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 journey	acl:relcl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 know	obj
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 what	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 road	acl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 happen	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 happen	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 happen	aux
36	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 take	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happen	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	bargain		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	travel	to-infinitive	bargain not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	understand	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not know	present	Princes = prince	a perilous journey		wherein property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	take	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	happen	may		Princes = prince			tree rules

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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