The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 63
‘No, you never were,’ said the knight; ‘for he is within two or three minutes of his latter end.’
Who acts: you, Thief · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: knight · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 were | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 were | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 were | advmod |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 minutes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 minutes | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 minutes | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 minutes | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 minutes | cop |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 minutes | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 three | cc |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 two | conj |
| 21 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 end | nmod:poss |
| 24 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 minutes | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Thief | of Thief's latter end | for two minutes | tree rules |
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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