The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 139

‘Wilt thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday night? for then will I come and fetch thee, and bear thee away with me in a sack, and thou must lay all thy gold and silver, and whatsoever thou may’st possess of this world’s wealth, in a heap in thy best parlour.’

Who acts: thou, I · What happens: hold, travel away, come, fetch, lay, possess · To what, where: thyself, readiness, thee, gold

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 (thou, 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	_	4 hold	punct
2	Wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	4 hold	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 readiness	case
7	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 travel	mark
9	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 travel	advmod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
12	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 night	compound
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travel	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 come	advmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fetch	cc
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 fetch	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bear	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bear	cc
25	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hold	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 sack	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sack	det
32	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lay	cc
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 lay	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 lay	aux
37	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 gold	det
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 gold	nmod:poss
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 silver	cc
42	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gold	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 possess	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 possess	cc
45	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	48 possess	advmod
46	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	48 possess	nsubj
47	may’st	may'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 possess	amod
48	possess	possess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	53 wealth	case
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 world	det
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 wealth	nmod:poss
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 world	case
53	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 possess	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 heap	punct
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 heap	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 heap	det
57	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	61 parlour	case
59	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	61 parlour	nmod:poss
60	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	61 parlour	amod
61	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	future	thou	thyself	readiness		with me; in a sack; in a heap; in thy best parlour; bear obl; away property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme thou=Eventuality
2	travel away	to-infinitive	thou not said here			night	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	future	I			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	I not said here	thee				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
5	lay	must	thou	thy gold and silver				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Result
6	possess		thou				of this world's wealth; whatsoever property	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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