The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 253

The Master Thief lived well and happily from that time forth, and whether he ever stole any more or not I cannot tell you, but if he did it was but for pastime.

Who acts: Master Thief, Governor, I, money · What happens: live, steal, not tell, do, be · To what, where: you · 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 (Master Thief, Governor, I, money), 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	3 Thief	det
2	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thief	compound
3	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happily	cc
7	happily	happily	ADV	_	5 well	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 time	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stole	cc
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 stole	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stole	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 stole	advmod
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
18	any	any	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 stole	advmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stole	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 did	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pastime	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pastime	cop
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 pastime	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 pastime	case
36	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 did	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Master Thief		time	well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal	past	Governor		ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	can	I	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	do a condition, not said to happen	past	Governor				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	money			for pastime	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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