The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 75

‘What kind of a thief may it be which thou couldst put in thy glove?’ said Kieva.

Who acts: kind, thou, Kieva · What happens: be, put, say · To what, where: kind, glove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, thou, Kieva), 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	_	13 put	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 kind	det
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thief	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thief	det
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 which	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 which	cop
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 put	obl
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 put	nsubj
12	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 glove	case
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 glove	nmod:poss
16	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Kieva	Kieva	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	kind			tree rules
2	put	could	thou	what kind of a thief	thy glove	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kind=Theme in glove=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Kieva			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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