The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 78
The robbers, also, were not very well pleased at this, for they were forced to own that the youth was at the head of them all.
Who acts: robbers, youth · What happens: not be, force, own, be · To what, where: this, robbers, head
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, youth), 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 | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robbers | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 robbers | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robbers | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 pleased | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forced | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 forced | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forced | aux:pass |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pleased | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 own | mark |
| 19 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 head | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 head | cop |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 own | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the robbers | this | pleased, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | force | past · passive | robbers = robber | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | own | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the youth | the head | of 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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