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title: ‘I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou shalt be taken away alive into heaven,’ said the Master Thief. Who acts: I, piety, Master Thief. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 138

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‘I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou shalt be taken away alive into heaven,’ said the Master Thief.

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**Who acts:** I, piety, Master Thief · **What happens:** send, announce, take away, say · **To what, where:** I, that, thee, thou, heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, piety, Master Thief), 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:pg540:9:138
# text = ‘I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou shalt be taken away alive into heaven,’ said the Master Thief.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	TO	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	piety	piety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that | thee |  |  | because thy piety | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **take away** | shall · passive | thy piety *not said here* | thou |  | heaven |  | alive, away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master Thief |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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