The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 65

But I will know the truth,’ he said; ‘if the two others are still hanging there it is true but if they are not it’s nothing else but witchcraft.’

Who acts: I, man, two others, truth · What happens: know, say, hang, be · To what, where: truth · 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 (I, man, two others, truth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 know	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hanging	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 hanging	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 hanging	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 others	nummod
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hanging	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hanging	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 hanging	advmod
19	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 hanging	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 true	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 true	cop
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hanging	ccomp
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 ’s	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 ’s	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ’s	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 ’s	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ’s	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ’s	nsubj
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hanging	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 ’s	obj
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 nothing	advmod
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 witchcraft	cc
34	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nothing	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	future	I	the truth				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hang a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	the two others		there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	truth				true property	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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