The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 27

Then the robbers began to mutter to each other apart about what they should do with him, whether they should murder him, or what else they should do.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: begin, mutter, do, murder · To what, where: each, fellow

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 (robbers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mutter	mark
6	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 mutter	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 mutter	advmod
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mutter	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 murder	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 murder	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 murder	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 murder	aux
22	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 murder	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 what	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 what	cc
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 began	obl
27	else	else	ADV	_	26 what	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 what	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the robbers			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mutter speech: assert	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here		each		apart property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	do	should	robbers = robber				with fellow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	murder	should	robbers = robber	fellow				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	do	should	robbers = robber					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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