The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 85

‘How so?’ says the knight; ‘it is impossible for him to escape.’

Who acts: Thief · What happens: say, be, escape · To what, where: knight · 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 (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	_	6 says	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 impossible	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 impossible	cop
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 escape	mark
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 escape	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 escape	mark
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 impossible	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the knight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
2	is	present			impossible property	tree rules
3	escape	to-infinitive	Thief			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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