The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 56
Do you think you could steal the Princess Helena?”
Who acts: you · What happens: think, steal · To what, where: Princess Helena · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 steal | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 steal | aux |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Helena | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Helena | compound |
| 9 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 steal | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | could | you | the Princess Helena | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location helena=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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