The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 86

Perhaps if the Shifty Lad’s mother knew anything of this, she may have thought that by this time her son might be tired of stealing, and ready to try some honest trade.

Who acts: mother, son · What happens: know, think, be, try · To what, where: anything, that, honest trade · 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 (mother, son), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 thought	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 knew	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lad	det
4	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lad	amod
5	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Lad	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Perhaps	advcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 knew	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 anything	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	aux
16	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 thought	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	obl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tired	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tired	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 tired	cop
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 stealing	case
27	stealing	stealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tired	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ready	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ready	cc
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tired	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 try	mark
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 trade	det
34	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trade	amod
35	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 try	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	the Shifty Lad's mother	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	may · perfect	mother	that	time	perhaps property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	is	might	mother's son			of stealing; tired property	tree rules
4	be		mother's son not said here				tree rules
5	try	to-infinitive	mother's son not said here	some honest trade			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Eventuality

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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