The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 8

‘Dost thou think that thou art fit to go where people can see thee?’ said the skipper; ‘thou hast no clothes but those rags thou art going about in!’

Who acts: thou, people, clothes · What happens: do, think, be, go, see, say · To what, where: thou, thee, skipper, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, people, clothes), 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	_	2 Dost	punct
2	Dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Dost	obj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Dost	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fit	mark
6	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 fit	nsubj
7	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fit	cop
8	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fit	xcomp
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 see	advmod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 see	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Dost	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dost	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 skipper	det
20	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hast	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 hast	punct
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 hast	nsubj
24	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 clothes	det
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 hast	obj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 art	cc
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 rags	det
29	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 art	nsubj
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 art	nsubj
31	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hast	conj
32	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 art	xcomp
33	about	about	ADV	_	34 in	advmod
34	in	in	ADV	_	32 going	advmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		thou		tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	thou		fit property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	thou not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	can	people	thee		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past		the skipper		tree rules
7	have	present	thou	no clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
8	go about	gerund	no clothes not said here			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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