Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 57

"I was afraid of thieves; and you see, if I have the door with me, they can't break it open and get in."

Who acts: sheriff, you, thieves · What happens: be, see, have, not break, open, get in · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheriff, you, thieves), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 thieves	case
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afraid	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 break	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 break	nsubj
21	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 break	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 break	advmod
23	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 break	obj
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 break	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 get	cc
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 break	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the sheriff = sheriff		of thieves; afraid property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the sheriff = sheriff	the door	with the sheriff = sheriff	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	not break in a quote	can	thieves = thief	door		tree rules
5	open in a quote	infinitive	thieves = thief not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get in in a quote	infinitive	thieves = thief not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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