The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 97

I took up the bundle that contained everything belonging to the corpse that was valuable, intending to take my departure from this melancholy abode; but just as I came to the mouth of the entrance I saw the guards of the place coming towards me, and distinctly heard them saying that they would look in the vault, for that the Black Thief would think little of robbing the corpse if he was anywhere in the place.

Who acts: I, bundle, corpse, place, guards, Black Thief · What happens: take up, contain, belong, be, intend, take · To what, where: bundle, everything, departure, melancholy abode, mouth, guards · 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, bundle, corpse, place), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bundle	det
5	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 contained	nsubj
7	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bundle	acl:relcl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 contained	obj
9	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 everything	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 corpse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corpse	det
12	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belonging	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 valuable	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 valuable	cop
15	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 corpse	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 intending	punct
17	intending	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 belonging	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 intending	xcomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 departure	nmod:poss
21	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 abode	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 abode	det
24	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 abode	compound
25	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 mouth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mouth	det
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 entrance	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 entrance	det
37	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mouth	nmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 entrance	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 guards	det
41	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 saw	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 place	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 place	det
44	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 guards	nmod
45	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 place	acl
46	towards	towards	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 coming	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 heard	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 heard	cc
50	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	51 heard	advmod
51	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 heard	obj
53	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 heard	advcl
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 look	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 look	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 look	aux
57	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 saying	ccomp
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 vault	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 vault	det
60	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 look	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 think	punct
62	for	for	SCONJ	_	68 think	mark
63	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 think	mark
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Thief	det
65	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Thief	compound
66	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 think	nsubj
67	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 think	aux
68	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 look	conj
69	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 think	obl:unmarked
70	of	of	SCONJ	_	71 robbing	mark
71	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 little	advcl
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 corpse	det
73	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 robbing	obj
74	if	if	SCONJ	_	77 anywhere	mark
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 anywhere	nsubj
76	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 anywhere	cop
77	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	68 think	parataxis
78	in	in	ADP	_	80 place	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 place	det
80	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 anywhere	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	past	I	the bundle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
2	contain	past	the bundle	everything			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme
3	belong	gerund				to the corpse	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the corpse			valuable property	tree rules
5	intend	gerund					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		my departure	this melancholy abode		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent departure=Theme from abode=Initial_Location
7	come	past	I		the mouth of the entrance		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location
8	see	past	I	the guards of the place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus
9	come	gerund	the place not said here			towards me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location
10	hear	past	I not said here	guards = guard		distinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
11	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	look	would	guards = guard			in the vault	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vault=Theme
13	think speech: other	would	the Black Thief	little			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	rob	gerund	the Black Thief not said here	the corpse			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Source
15	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Thief		the place	anywhere property	tree rules
16	depart		my				nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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