The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 2

When the three rogues heard this, they said to him: ‘Oh, dear Mr. Simon, do us the favour to tie us up in sacks and throw us into the river that we may give up our thieving ways and become the owners of flocks.’

Who acts: three rogues, rogues, river · What happens: hear, say, do, tie up, throw, give up · To what, where: this, him, favour, us, sacks, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three rogues, rogues, river), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rogues	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rogues	nummod
4	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 do	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Simon	punct
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Simon	amod
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Simon	nmod:desc
18	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Oh	vocative
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Oh	punct
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 do	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 favour	det
23	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tie	mark
25	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	advcl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tie	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 tie	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 sacks	case
29	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tie	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 throw	cc
31	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tie	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 throw	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 river	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 river	det
35	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 throw	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 give	nsubj
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 give	nsubj
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 river	acl:relcl
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 give	compound:prt
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 ways	nmod:poss
42	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 ways	amod
43	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 give	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 become	cc
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 give	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 owners	det
47	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 become	xcomp
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 flocks	case
49	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 owners	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	participle	the three rogues	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	rogues = rogue		him = he			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	do	infinitive		the favour	us			tree rules
4	tie up	to-infinitive		us		sacks		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
5	throw	infinitive		us			into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer we=Theme into river=Result
6	give up	may	the river	our thieving ways				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Source
7	thieve	gerund						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	become	infinitive	the river not said here	the owners of flocks				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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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