The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 89

‘My way of living, sir,’ says the Black Thief, ‘was not good, as I told you before; and being at a certain time fairly run out of cash, and meeting with no enterprise worthy of notice, I was reduced to great straits.

Who acts: Black Thief, I, certain time · What happens: say, not be, tell, be, run, meet · To what, where: you, cash, I, great straits · 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, certain time), 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 way	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	ccomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 living	case
5	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sir	punct
7	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	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	13 Thief	det
12	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Thief	compound
13	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 says	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	before	before	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 time	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 time	cc
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 time	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl:unmarked
32	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	33 run	advmod
33	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 time	acl:relcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 cash	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 cash	case
36	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 run	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 meeting	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 meeting	cc
39	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 run	advcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 worthy	case
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 worthy	det
42	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 worthy	compound
43	worthy	worthy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 meeting	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 notice	case
45	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 worthy	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 reduced	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 reduced	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 reduced	aux:pass
49	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 straits	case
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 straits	amod
52	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 reduced	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Black Thief						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the Black Thief not said here					good property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	I		you			before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	gerund					at a certain time		tree rules
5	run	present	a certain time not said here			cash		fairly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cash=Trajectory
6	meet	gerund	a certain time not said here					with no enterprise worthy of notice	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with worthy=Co-Agent
7	reduce	past · passive		I				to great straits goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to strait=Goal

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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