The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 34

The robbers had heard of this, so they told the youth that if he were able to steal the ox from him on the way, without his knowing, and without doing him any harm, he should have leave to be their servant-man.

Who acts: robbers, man · What happens: hear, tell, be, steal, know, do · To what, where: robbers, youth, ox, way, man, servant man · 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 (robbers, man), 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 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 able	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 able	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 steal	mark
19	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ox	det
21	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 steal	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 steal	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 steal	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knowing	punct
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 knowing	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knowing	nsubj
30	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 have	cc
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 doing	mark
34	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 have	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 doing	obj
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 harm	det
37	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 doing	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 doing	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	aux
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	parataxis
42	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 have	xcomp
43	to	to	PART	_	48 man	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 man	cop
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 man	nmod:poss
46	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 man	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 servant	punct
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leave	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		the robbers		of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	robbers = robber	the youth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient
3	is	past	man			able property	tree rules
4	steal	to-infinitive	man not said here	the ox	the way	from man	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ox=Theme from he=Source
5	know	gerund	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	gerund	man not said here	man			tree rules
7	have	should	man				tree rules
8	leave	infinitive	man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is a	to-infinitive	man not said here	oxen's servant man			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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