The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 32

'He will need to be clever if he is to steal that!' they cried, with a chuckle.

Who acts: king, brothers · What happens: need, be, cry

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, brothers), 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 need	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	7 clever	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 clever	cop
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 need	xcomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 steal	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 steal	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 steal	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 steal	mark
12	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clever	advcl
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 steal	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chuckle	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 chuckle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chuckle	det
21	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	need	future	king		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	clever property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	king	steal property	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	brothers = brother	with a chuckle	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with chuckle=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 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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