The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 53

‘Well,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘if it were my case I would rather die by the Knight than by the wicked Queen; besides, I will go with you myself and show you the road, and whatever fortune you will have, I will take chance of the same.’

Who acts: head, I, you · What happens: say, be, die, go, show, have · To what, where: Thief, case, myself, road, you, whatever · 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 (head, I, you), 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 Thief	det
7	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sloan	case
9	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Thief	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 die	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 die	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 case	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 case	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 case	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 case	nmod:poss
16	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 die	advcl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 die	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 die	aux
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 die	advmod
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 Knight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Knight	det
23	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 die	obl
24	than	than	ADP	_	28 Queen	case
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 Queen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Queen	det
27	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Queen	amod
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 die	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
30	besides	besides	INTJ	_	34 go	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 besides	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	obl
37	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 go	obl:unmarked
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 show	cc
39	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 go	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 show	iobj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 road	det
42	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 show	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 have	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 have	cc
45	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 have	obj
46	fortune	fortune	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 have	aux
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 have	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 have	aux
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 take	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 take	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 take	aux
53	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 have	conj
54	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 same	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 same	det
57	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 chance	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the Thief of Sloan			tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	head	my case			tree rules
3	die	would	I			by the Knight; than the wicked Queen	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	go	future	I	myself		with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
5	show	infinitive	I not said here	the road	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient road=Topic
6	have	present	you	whatever			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient
7	take	future	I	chance of the same			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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