The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 57
‘If thou leavest them,’ said the hoodie, ‘we will steal them.’
Who acts: thou, we · What happens: leave, say, steal · To what, where: axe, hoodie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, we), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 leavest | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 leavest | nsubj |
| 4 | leavest | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leavest | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leavest | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 leavest | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hoodie | det |
| 10 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 steal | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 steal | aux |
| 15 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 steal | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | axe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hoodie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hoodie=Topic | |||||
| 3 | steal | future | we | axe | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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 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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