The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 145
The way to heaven is not an easy one,’ said the Master Thief, and dragged him along till he all but killed him.
Who acts: way, Master Thief · What happens: not be, say, drag, kill · To what, where: easy one, Priest · 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 (way, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 heaven | case |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 one | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Thief | det |
| 14 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Thief | compound |
| 15 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dragged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dragged | cc |
| 18 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dragged | obj |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 dragged | advmod |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 all | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 dragged | obl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 killed | cc |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dragged | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the way to heaven | a easy one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Thief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drag | past | the Master Thief not said here | Priest | till all | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | kill | past | the Master Thief not said here | Priest | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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