--- title: ‘I escaped death more wonderfully myself,’ says the Thief of Sloan,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I escaped death more wonderfully myself,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘than if you had him ready to throw into the furnace, and I hope it will be the case with him likewise.’ Who acts: I, you, furnace. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, furnace), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:8:86 # text = ‘I escaped death more wonderfully myself,’ says the Thief of Sloan, ‘than if you had him ready to throw into the furnace, and I hope it will be the case with him likewise.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 4 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 6 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Sloan Sloan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | past | I | death | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the Thief of Sloan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | Thief | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive | | | | | | into the furnace *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into furnace=Result | | 5 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | likewise *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is a** | future | furnace | the case | | | | with Thief | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/87/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)