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title: Now, sir knight,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘you see what dangers I c… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, sir knight,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘you see what dangers I came through and always escaped; but, indeed, I am lame for the want of my toe ever since.’ Who acts: you, dangers, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 134

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Now, sir knight,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘you see what dangers I came through and always escaped; but, indeed, I am lame for the want of my toe ever since.’

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**Who acts:** you, dangers, I · **What happens:** say, see, come through, escape, be, want · **To what, where:** sir knight, lame, toe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dangers, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:8:134
# text = Now, sir knight,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘you see what dangers I came through and always escaped; but, indeed, I am lame for the want of my toe ever since.’
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	through	through	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	lame	lame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
39	since	since	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | sir knight |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come through** | past | dangers |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | participle | dangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | I | lame |  |  |  | for the want of my toe; indeed, since *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** |  |  | my toe |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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