The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 72

I heard one of them say to the other that if the Black Thief came on them while they slept, he would not leave them a penny.

Who acts: I, one, Black Thief, bags, Thief · What happens: hear, say, come, sleep, not leave · To what, where: one, penny, bags · 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, one, Black Thief, bags), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:685): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heard	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 leave	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 Thief	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Thief	det
13	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Thief	compound
14	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 leave	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 slept	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leave	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 leave	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 leave	advmod
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 penny	det
28	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	one of bags			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	one of bags not said here			to the other	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	come	past	the Black Thief			on bags = bag	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
4	sleep	past	bags = bag				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not leave	would	Thief	a penny	bags = bag		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme penny=Attribute

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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