The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 124

There is only one thing I can do really well, and that is—to steal, and to hide the smallest scrap of anything I have stolen.

Who acts: one thing, I, that · What happens: be, do, hide, steal · To what, where: one thing, smallest scrap

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing, I, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl:relcl
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 steal	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 steal	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 steal	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 steal	cop
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 steal	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 steal	mark
17	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hide	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hide	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hide	mark
21	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 steal	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 scrap	det
23	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 scrap	amod
24	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hide	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 scrap	nmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 stolen	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 stolen	aux
29	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 anything	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one thing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	can	I	one thing not said here		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	is	present	that			steal property	tree rules
4	hide	to-infinitive	that not said here	the smallest scrap of anything			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient
5	steal	present · perfect	I				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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