The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 46
‘I am called,’ said he, ‘the Thief of Sloan, and sometimes the Black Thief from my cap; ‘and so telling the prince the most of his adventures, he asked him again where they were bound for, or what they were about.
Who acts: youngest, Princes · What happens: call, say, tell, ask, bind, be · To what, where: I, prince, Sloan, 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 (youngest, 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 | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thief | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thief | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Thief | det |
| 12 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sloan | case |
| 14 | Sloan | Sloan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Thief | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Thief | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Thief | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 Thief | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Thief | det |
| 19 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Thief | compound |
| 20 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Thief | appos |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 cap | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cap | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Thief | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 28 telling | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 telling | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 telling | advmod |
| 28 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 telling | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 most | det |
| 32 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 telling | ccomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 adventures | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 35 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 most | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 asked | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 asked | nsubj |
| 38 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 asked | iobj |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 asked | advmod |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 bound | advmod |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 bound | aux:pass |
| 44 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 asked | advcl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 bound | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 what | punct |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 what | cc |
| 48 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 asked | parataxis |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 about | nsubj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 about | cop |
| 51 | about | about | ADV | _ | 48 what | acl:relcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | youngest = young | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | youngest = young | Sloan | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bind | past · passive | Princes = prince | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Princes = prince | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | adventure | youngest = young | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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