The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 106

‘Now,’ he said, ‘the youngest of them has come home, and has threatened me till I have come to you to ask for your daughter for him, and I am to say that he is a Master Thief,’ and again the man fell a-weeping and lamenting.

Who acts: man, youngest, I · What happens: say, come, threaten, ask, be, fall · To what, where: me, you, Master Thief, weeping · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, youngest, I), 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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youngest	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 come	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 youngest	nmod
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threatened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threatened	cc
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 threatened	aux
19	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 threatened	obj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 threatened	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 ask	mark
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 daughter	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ask	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ask	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 say	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 say	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 say	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 say	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	39 say	mark
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 Thief	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 Thief	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 Thief	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Thief	det
44	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Thief	compound
45	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 say	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Thief	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 Thief	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 fell	cc
49	again	again	ADV	_	52 fell	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 man	det
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fell	nsubj
52	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 Thief	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 weeping	det
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 a	punct
55	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fell	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 lamenting	cc
57	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 weeping	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · perfect	the youngest of sons				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	threaten	present · perfect	man not said here	me				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	come	present · perfect	I		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here				for your daughter; for man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	man	a Master Thief				tree rules
8	fall	past	the man	a weeping		again		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result
9	lament	gerund	the man not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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