The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 69

“We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret.

Who acts: Captain, we · What happens: discover, say, undo, not find out, be · To what, where: We · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, 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	_	5 discovered	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 discovered	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 discovered	aux:pass
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 discovered	advmod
5	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 discovered	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 discovered	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Captain	det
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 undone	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 undone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 undone	cc
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 undone	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 undone	aux:pass
16	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 find	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 find	advmod
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 undone	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knows	nsubj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knows	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 knows	cop
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 knows	mark
27	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 find	conj
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 secret	nmod:poss
29	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knows	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	discover in a quote	present · passive		We	certainly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the Captain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	undo in a quote	shall · passive	the Captain not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
4	not find out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	we			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present			know property	tree rules

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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