The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 51

So they told the youth that if he could take this ox also without the man knowing anything about it, and without doing him any hurt, he should then be on an equality with them.

Who acts: robbers, man · What happens: tell, take, know, do, be · To what, where: youth, ox, anything, man, equality · 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 ox	det
12	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	also	also	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
17	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 man	acl
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 knowing	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 anything	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 doing	cc
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 doing	mark
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 doing	obj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 hurt	det
27	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 equality	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 equality	aux
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 equality	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 equality	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 equality	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 equality	det
35	equality	equality	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 equality	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	robbers = robber	the youth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	could	man	this ox			without the man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
3	know	gerund	the man not said here	anything			about shoe	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	do	gerund	robbers = robber not said here	man				tree rules
5	is	should	man		a equality	then	with robbers = robber	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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