The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 93

‘You said that I might take to anything I liked, so I apprenticed myself to some thieves and robbers, and now I have served my time and have become Master Thief.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, take, like, apprentice, serve, become · To what, where: myself · 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 (You, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 take	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 liked	nsubj
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apprenticed	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 apprenticed	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 apprenticed	nsubj
15	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 apprenticed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 thieves	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 thieves	det
19	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 apprenticed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 robbers	cc
21	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thieves	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 served	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 served	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 served	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 served	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 served	aux
27	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 time	nmod:poss
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 served	obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 become	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
32	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 served	conj
33	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Thief	compound
34	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 become	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	might	I			to anything result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to anything=Result
3	like	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	apprentice	past	I	myself		to some thieves and robbers	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
5	serve	present · perfect	I		now; time		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	become	present · perfect	I not said here				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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