The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 82

‘Now, sir,’ says he to the Knight of the Glen, ‘if that be not as great an adventure as ever you heard, to be within one blow of a hatchet of my end, and that blow even drawn, and after all to escape, I leave it to yourself.’

Who acts: that, you, I · What happens: say, not be, hear, be, blow, draw · To what, where: hound, Knight, hatchet, yourself · 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 (that, you, I), 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	_	7 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Knight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Knight	det
11	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Glen	det
14	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Knight	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 adventure	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 adventure	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 great	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 great	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 great	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 great	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 great	advmod
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 adventure	amod
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 adventure	det
24	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 heard	mark
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 heard	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 adventure	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blow	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	34 blow	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 blow	cop
32	within	within	ADP	_	34 blow	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 blow	nummod
34	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 hatchet	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hatchet	det
37	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blow	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 end	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 end	nmod:poss
40	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hatchet	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 blow	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 blow	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 blow	nsubj
44	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
45	even	even	ADV	_	46 drawn	advmod
46	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 blow	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 leave	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 leave	cc
49	after	after	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 leave	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 escape	mark
52	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 all	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 all	punct
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 leave	nsubj
55	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 blow	conj
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 leave	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 yourself	case
58	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 leave	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		hound	the Knight of the Glen	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to knight=Recipient
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	that				great property	tree rules
3	hear	past	you			ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here				within one blow; of a hatchet of my end	tree rules
5	blow	present	that					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	draw	participle	that not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	escape	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave	present	I	hatchet	yourself	after all		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to yourself=Recipient

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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