The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 74

The thief bade him good-day, saying: “Honest man, how can you possibly see to stitch at your age?”

Who acts: you · What happens: say, see, stitch · To what, where: age · 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 (you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bade	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bade	compound
3	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	obj
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bade	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bade	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
12	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bade	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 see	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stitch	mark
21	stitch	stitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 age	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 age	nmod:poss
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stitch	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	can	you		possibly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stitch in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	at your age		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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