The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 84

‘Indeed,’ says the Black Thief, ‘I would fain think he would not die this time either.’

Who acts: Black Thief, I, Thief · What happens: say, fain, think, not die · 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 (Black Thief, I, Thief), 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	_	2 Indeed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Thief	det
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Thief	compound
8	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fain	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 fain	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fain	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fain	aux
13	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fain	xcomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 die	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 die	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 die	advmod
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	ccomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 die	obl:unmarked
21	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 die	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fain	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Black Thief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fain	would	I			tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	I not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not die	would	Thief	time	either property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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