The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 66

‘If you think, sir knight,’ says the Black Thief, ‘that the danger I was in surpasses that of this young man, will you pardon him his crime?’

Who acts: you, Black Thief, I, danger, Thief · What happens: think, say, be, surpass, pardon, incriminate · To what, where: sir knight, danger, that, 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 (you, Black Thief, I, danger), 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	_	10 says	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 think	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
6	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knight	compound
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Thief	det
12	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Thief	compound
13	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surpasses	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 surpasses	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 surpasses	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 danger	det
18	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 surpasses	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 in	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 in	cop
21	in	in	ADV	_	18 danger	acl:relcl
22	surpasses	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 surpasses	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 man	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 that	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pardon	punct
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pardon	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 pardon	nsubj
31	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 surpasses	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pardon	obj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 crime	nmod:poss
34	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pardon	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you	sir knight		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knight=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the Black Thief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	I	the danger not said here	in property	tree rules
4	surpass	present	the danger	that		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
5	pardon	future	you	Thief		tree rules
6	incriminate		Thief			nom crime «act transitive»: 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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