The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 131

Why, had I chosen, I could have robbed the royal treasury, have bribed your judges to let me off, and built a white marble palace with what was left.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, choose, rob, bribe, let off, build · To what, where: I, judges, me, white marble palace

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 (I), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 robbed	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chosen	nsubj
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 robbed	nsubj:pass
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 robbed	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 robbed	aux
10	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 treasury	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 treasury	amod
13	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 robbed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bribed	punct
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bribed	aux
16	bribed	bribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 robbed	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 judges	nmod:poss
18	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bribed	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 let	mark
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bribed	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 let	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 built	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 built	cc
25	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 robbed	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 palace	det
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 palace	amod
28	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 palace	compound
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 built	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 what	case
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 palace	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	aux:pass
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 what	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 robbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past			tree rules
2	choose	participle	I		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rob	could · perfect · passive		I	tree rules
4	bribe	present · perfect		your judges	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=Patient
5	let off	to-infinitive		me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	build	past		a white marble palace	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent palace=Theme with what=Source
7	leave	past · passive			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/131/