The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 75

‘I had not gone far,’ continued the Thief of Sloan, ‘until I saw a grey-hound, a hare, and a hawk in pursuit of me, and began to think it must be the witches that had taken the shapes in order that I might not escape them unseen either by land or water.

Who acts: I, hawk · What happens: not go, continue, see, begin, think, be · To what, where: Thief, grey hound, witches, order, me · 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, hawk), 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	_	5 gone	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Thief	det
11	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Sloan	case
13	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Thief	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hound	det
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hound	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grey	punct
22	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hare	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hound	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hawk	det
29	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 began	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 pursuit	case
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hawk	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pursuit	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 think	mark
38	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 witches	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 witches	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 witches	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 witches	det
43	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 think	ccomp
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 taken	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 taken	aux
46	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 witches	acl:relcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 shapes	det
48	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 taken	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 order	case
50	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 taken	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 escape	obj
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 escape	nsubj
53	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 escape	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 escape	advmod
55	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 witches	acl
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 escape	obj
57	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 escape	xcomp
58	either	either	CCONJ	_	60 land	cc:preconj
59	by	by	ADP	_	60 land	case
60	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 escape	obl
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 water	cc
62	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 land	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	I			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	past		the Thief of Sloan			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thief=Theme
3	see	past	I	a grey hound			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus
4	begin	past	a hawk in pursuit of me				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	a hawk in pursuit of me not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	must	hawk	the witches			tree rules
7	take	past · perfect · passive		the witches	order		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shape=Destination
8	not escape	might	I	the witches		by land or water; unseen property	tree rules
9	pursue			me			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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