The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 138

‘I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou shalt be taken away alive into heaven,’ said the Master Thief.

Who acts: I, piety, Master Thief · What happens: send, announce, take away, say · To what, where: I, that, thee, thou, heaven · 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 (I, piety, Master 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 sent	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 angel	det
5	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 announce	mark
8	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 announce	obl
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 announce	obj
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 piety	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 piety	nmod:poss
15	piety	piety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 announce	obl
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 taken	nsubj:pass
17	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	aux:pass
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 piety	acl:relcl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 taken	advmod
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 taken	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 heaven	case
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Thief	det
28	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Thief	compound
29	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive		I				tree rules
2	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	that	thee		because thy piety	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to thou=Recipient
3	take away	shall · passive	thy piety not said here	thou		heaven	alive, away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Master Thief					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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