The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 83

‘Well, I cannot say but it is very extraordinary,’ says the Knight of the Glen, ‘and on that account pardon this young man his crime; so stir up the fire, till I boil this second one.’

Who acts: I, hatchet, man · What happens: not say, be, say, pardon, stir up, boil · To what, where: Knight, young man, account, fire, second one · 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, hatchet, man), 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 say	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 says	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 extraordinary	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 extraordinary	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 extraordinary	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 extraordinary	advmod
12	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Knight	det
17	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Glen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Glen	det
20	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Knight	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Knight	punct
22	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	27 pardon	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pardon	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 account	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 account	det
26	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pardon	obl
27	pardon	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 says	ccomp
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 man	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pardon	obj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 crime	nmod:poss
32	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pardon	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 stir	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 stir	advmod
35	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pardon	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 stir	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fire	det
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stir	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 boil	punct
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 boil	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 boil	nsubj
42	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 stir	conj
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 one	det
44	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 one	amod
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 boil	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 pardon	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 pardon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	hatchet			extraordinary property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present		the Knight of the Glen			tree rules
4	pardon	present		this young man	that account		tree rules
5	stir up	infinitive		the fire			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
6	boil	present	I	this second one			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	incriminate		man				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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