The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 23

But if she could not steal the casket and its contents for herself, at least she could get another like it, and perhaps a still richer one.

Who acts: woman · What happens: not steal, get · To what, where: casket, another, least

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 steal	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 steal	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 steal	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 steal	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 steal	advmod
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 casket	det
8	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 contents	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 contents	nmod:poss
11	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 casket	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 contents	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 least	case
16	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 get	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 steal	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 get	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 another	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 one	cc
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 one	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 richer	advmod
28	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 steal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steal	could	woman	the casket and envy's contents for woman					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location casket=Theme
2	get	could	woman	another		least		like envy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent another=Theme at least=Asset

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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