The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 62

‘I was as near death once as the prince is yet,’ says the Black Thief, ‘and escaped; and so will he too.’

Who acts: I, prince, Black Thief · What happens: be, say, escape · To what, where: Black Thief · 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 (I, prince, Black Thief), 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	_	6 death	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 death	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 death	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 death	amod
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	ccomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 death	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 yet	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yet	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 yet	cop
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 once	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 death	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Thief	det
17	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Thief	compound
18	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 escaped	punct
20	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 escaped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 escaped	cc
22	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Thief	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 will	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 will	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 will	advmod
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 says	ccomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 too	nsubj
28	too	too	ADV	_	26 will	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		as near death; once property	tree rules
2	is	present	the prince		yet property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present		the Black Thief		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
4	escape	past	the Black Thief not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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