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The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 54

They returned him sincere thanks for his kindness, and he, being well acquainted with the road, in a short time brought them within view of the knight’s castle.

Who acts: knights · What happens: return, acquaint, bring, view · To what, where: Thief, knights, castle

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 (knights), 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

nsubjobjamodobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctccnsubj:passpunctaux:passadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctcasedetamodoblconjobjcaseoblcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootTheyPRONreturnedVERBhimPRONsincereADJthanksNOUNforADPhisPRONkindnessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRON,PUNCTbeingAUXwellADVacquaintedVERBwithADPtheDETroadNOUN,PUNCTinADPaDETshortADJtimeNOUNbroughtVERBthemPRONwithinADPviewNOUNofADPtheDETknightNOUN’sPARTcastleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 returnednsubj
2returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 returnedobj
4sinceresincereADJDegree=Pos5 thanksamod
5thanksthanksNOUNNumber=Ptan2 returnedobj
6forforADP_8 kindnesscase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 kindnessnmod:poss
8kindnesskindnessNOUNNumber=Sing5 thanksnmod
9,,PUNCT_15 acquaintedpunct
10andandCCONJ_15 acquaintedcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 acquaintednsubj:pass
12,,PUNCT_11 hepunct
13beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 acquaintedaux:pass
14wellwellADVDegree=Pos15 acquaintedadvmod
15acquaintedacquaintVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 returnedconj
16withwithADP_18 roadcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 roaddet
18roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing15 acquaintedobl
19,,PUNCT_24 broughtpunct
20ininADP_23 timecase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 timedet
22shortshortADJDegree=Pos23 timeamod
23timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
24broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 acquaintedconj
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 broughtobj
26withinwithinADP_27 viewcase
27viewviewNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
28ofofADP_32 castlecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 knightdet
30knightknightNOUNNumber=Sing32 castlenmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 knightcase
32castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing27 viewnmod
33..PUNCT_2 returnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastknights = knightThiefvn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme thanks=Eventuality
2acquaint speech: othergerund · passiveThiefwith the road; well propertyvn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3bringpastknights = knighttimewithin view of the knight's castlevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4viewthe knight's castlenom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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