The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 19

‘Oh! robbers, and rabble of that sort,’ said the old woman; ‘they stole me away when I was little, and I have had to keep house for them ever since.’

Who acts: old woman, people, I · What happens: say, steal away, be, have, keep · To what, where: me, house · 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 (old woman, people, 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 robbers	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 robbers	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rabble	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rabble	cc
7	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robbers	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sort	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 sort	det
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabble	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 robbers	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stole	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 stole	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stole	nsubj
20	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 stole	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 stole	advmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 little	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 little	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 little	cop
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stole	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 keep	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keep	obl
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 since	advmod
38	since	since	ADV	_	33 keep	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	steal away	past	people	me	away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
3	is	past	I		little property	tree rules
4	have	present · perfect	I			tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	house	for people; since property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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