The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 32
“What should you say if anybody wanted to steal that?”
Who acts: you, anybody · What happens: say, want, steal · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, anybody), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | mark |
| 7 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 steal | mark |
| 10 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 steal | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | should | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | anybody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | steal not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | anybody not said here | that | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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