The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 71

But the robbers knew all about it, and they told the youth that if he could steal this as he had stolen the two others, he should be master of the whole troop.

Who acts: robbers, man · What happens: know, tell, steal, be · To what, where: youth, this, two others, master · 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 steal	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 steal	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 steal	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 steal	aux
18	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 steal	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stolen	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stolen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stolen	aux
23	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 steal	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 others	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 others	nummod
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stolen	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 master	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 master	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 master	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 master	cop
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stolen	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 troop	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 troop	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 troop	amod
35	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 master	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the robbers		about sum; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	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
3	steal a condition, not said to happen	could	man	this		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme
4	steal	past · perfect	man	the two others		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme
5	is a	should	man	master	of the whole troop	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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