The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 109
If he can steal the joint off the spit in the kitchen on Sunday, when every one of us is watching it, he shall have my daughter.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: steal, watch, have · To what, where: joint, spit, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 steal | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 steal | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 steal | aux |
| 4 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 have | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joint | det |
| 6 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steal | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 spit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spit | det |
| 9 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steal | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spit | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Sunday | case |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kitchen | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 watching | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 watching | advmod |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watching | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 watching | aux |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kitchen | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 steal | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal a condition, not said to happen | can | man | the joint | the spit in the kitchen on Sunday | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent joint=Theme off spit=Source | |||
| 2 | watch | present · progressive | every one of us | joint | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | man | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 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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