The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 16

‘Ah! you are the better thief,’ said the Black Rogue’s wife; and the Black Rogue added:

Who acts: you, better thief, Black Rogue · What happens: be, say, add · To what, where: better thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, better thief, Black Rogue), 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	_	8 thief	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 thief	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thief	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thief	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thief	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 thief	amod
8	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thief	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 thief	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rogue	det
13	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rogue	compound
14	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Rogue	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 added	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Rogue	det
20	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Rogue	compound
21	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 added	nsubj
22	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	you	the better thief	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the better thief		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	add speech: assert	past	the Black Rogue		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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