The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 57

The Black Thief and the King’s sons thought to make their escape, but they were suddenly surrounded by the knight’s guards and taken prisoners; where they were brought into that dismal part of the palace where the knight kept a furnace always boiling, in which he threw all offenders that ever came in his way, which in a few moments would entirely consume them.

Who acts: guards, knight, Thief, sons · What happens: think, make, surround, take, bring, keep · To what, where: sons, escape, dismal part, furnace, offenders, way

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 (guards, knight, Thief, sons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
2	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thief	compound
3	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sons	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sons	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sons	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sons	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	xcomp
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 escape	nmod:poss
13	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 surrounded	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 surrounded	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 surrounded	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 surrounded	aux:pass
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 surrounded	advmod
19	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sons	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	24 guards	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 knight	det
22	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guards	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 knight	case
24	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 surrounded	obl:agent
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 prisoners	cc
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 prisoners	amod
27	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 surrounded	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 brought	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux:pass
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sons	parataxis
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 part	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 part	det
35	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 part	amod
36	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 part	nmod
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 kept	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 knight	det
42	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 kept	nsubj
43	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 palace	acl:relcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 furnace	det
45	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 kept	obj
46	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	47 boiling	advmod
47	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 kept	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 threw	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 which	case
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 threw	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 threw	nsubj
52	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	conj
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 offenders	det
54	offenders	offender	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 threw	obj
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 came	obl
56	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	57 came	advmod
57	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 offenders	acl:relcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 way	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 way	nmod:poss
60	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 came	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 consume	punct
62	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 consume	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 moments	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 moments	det
65	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 moments	amod
66	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 consume	obl
67	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 consume	aux
68	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	69 consume	advmod
69	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 way	acl:relcl
70	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 consume	obj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	participle		the King's sons not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		sons's escape				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product
3	surround	past · passive	the knight's guards	sons = son			suddenly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
4	take	participle						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bring	past · passive		sons = son	that dismal part of the palace			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into part=Destination
6	keep	past	the knight	a furnace				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furnace=Theme
7	boil	gerund	the knight not said here				always property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	throw	past	Thief	all offenders				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent offender=Theme in which=Destination
9	come	past		all offenders	Thief's way	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
10	consume	would		Thief's way		moment	entirely property	tree rules
11	escape		sons = son					nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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