The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 24

As soon as it was dark twelve murderers arrived, with the full intention of killing and robbing the strangers.

Who acts: inn, dark twelve murderers, full intention · What happens: be, arrive, kill, rob · To what, where: strangers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inn, dark twelve murderers, full intention), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 arrived	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	8 murderers	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 murderers	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 murderers	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 murderers	amod
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 murderers	nummod
8	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arrived	nsubj
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 intention	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 intention	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 intention	det
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 intention	amod
14	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	conj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 killing	mark
16	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 intention	acl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 robbing	cc
18	robbing	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 killing	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strangers	det
20	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 robbing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	inn		as dark twelve murderers	tree rules
2	arrive	past	dark twelve murderers		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	gerund	the full intention not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	rob	gerund	the full intention not said here	the strangers		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Source

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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