The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 55

‘Now,’ says he, ‘we must stay here till night comes; for I know all the ways of the place, and if there be any chance for it, it is when they are all at rest; for the steed is all the watch the knight keeps there.’

Who acts: we, night, I, chance, steed, knight · What happens: say, stay, come, know, be, keep · To what, where: Thief, ways, chance, rest, watch · 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 (we, night, I, chance), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stay	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stay	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 know	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ways	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ways	det
22	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ways	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chance	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chance	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 there	mark
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 chance	advcl
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 chance	cop
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 chance	det
32	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 chance	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rest	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 rest	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 rest	cop
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 rest	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 rest	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 rest	cop
41	all	all	ADV	_	43 rest	advmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 rest	case
43	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 watch	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 watch	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 steed	det
47	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 watch	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 watch	cop
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 watch	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 watch	det
51	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 knight	det
53	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 keeps	nsubj
54	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 watch	acl:relcl
55	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 keeps	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Thief		now		tree rules
2	stay	must	we		here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	I	all ways of the place				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	is a	infinitive		any chance			for chance	tree rules
6	is	present	chance		rest		all property	tree rules
7	is a	present	the steed	all watch				tree rules
8	keep	present	the knight	all watch not said here	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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