The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 65

‘If thou leavest them, we will steal them,’ said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him, and the giant answered:

Who acts: thou, we, giant · What happens: leave, steal, say, perch, answer · To what, where: tools, hoodie, stone · 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, giant), 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	_	9 steal	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	9 steal	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leavest	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leavest	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 steal	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 steal	aux
9	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 steal	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 steal	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 steal	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hoodie	det
15	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 perched	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 perched	aux:pass
18	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hoodie	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 stone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perched	obl
22	above	above	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stone	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 answered	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 giant	det
27	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	tools = tool		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	steal	future	we	tools = tool		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		a hoodie		tree rules
4	perch	past · passive		a hoodie	a stone above son	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on stone=Destination
5	answer speech: assert	past	the giant			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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