The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 86

‘I escaped death more wonderfully myself,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘than if you had him ready to throw into the furnace, and I hope it will be the case with him likewise.’

Who acts: I, you, furnace · What happens: escape, say, have, throw, hope, be · To what, where: death, Thief, furnace, case · 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, you, furnace), 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	_	3 escaped	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 escaped	nsubj
3	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 escaped	advmod
6	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	7 myself	advmod
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 more	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 escaped	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Thief	det
12	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Sloan	case
14	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Thief	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ready	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 ready	punct
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	obj
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 says	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 throw	mark
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ready	xcomp
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 furnace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 furnace	det
27	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hope	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hope	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hope	nsubj
31	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 case	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 case	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 case	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 case	det
36	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hope	ccomp
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 case	nmod
39	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	31 hope	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	escape	past	I	death		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	present		the Thief of Sloan		tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	you	Thief		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	throw	to-infinitive			into the furnace result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into furnace=Result
5	hope	present	I		likewise property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a	future	furnace	the case	with Thief	tree rules

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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