The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 99

‘If he is clever, I don’t mind trying,’ answered the Black Gallows Bird; ‘and, of course, if ANY one can turn him into a first-rate thief, it is I. But if he is stupid, it is of no use at all; I can’t bear stupid people.’

Who acts: son, I, one, thief · What happens: be, not mind, try, answer, turn, not bear · To what, where: Gallows Bird, son, rate thief, I., all, stupid people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, one, thief), 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	_	10 mind	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 clever	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mind	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 mind	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mind	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 mind	advmod
10	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 answered	ccomp
11	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 mind	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mind	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 mind	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bird	det
16	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Gallows	amod
17	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Bird	compound
18	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ‘	punct
20	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 turn	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
23	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	30 turn	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 of	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 turn	mark
27	ANY	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 turn	aux
30	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 answered	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turn	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	37 thief	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thief	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 rate	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 first	punct
36	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thief	compound
37	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 I.	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 I.	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 I.	cop
41	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 turn	parataxis
42	But	but	CCONJ	_	52 use	cc
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 stupid	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stupid	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 stupid	cop
46	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 use	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stupid	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 use	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 use	cop
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 use	case
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 use	det
52	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 I.	conj
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 all	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 use	nmod
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 bear	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 bear	nsubj
57	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 bear	aux
58	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 bear	advmod
59	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 answered	parataxis
60	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 people	amod
61	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bear	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 bear	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	59 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	son				clever property	tree rules
2	not mind	present · do-support	I					vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	try	gerund	I not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past			the Gallows Bird			tree rules
5	turn a condition, not said to happen	can	any one	son		a rate thief		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into thief=Trajectory
6	is a	present	thief	I. but no use				tree rules
7	is a condition, not said to happen	present	son				stupid property	tree rules
8	is	present	thief			all	of no use	tree rules
9	not bear	can	I	stupid people				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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