The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 131

Couldn’t you play off a really good trick on the Priest? for he is sitting inside there and calling me a fool for having let myself be taken in by such a fellow as you.’

Who acts: you, Governor, fellow · What happens: not play off, sit, call, have, let, take in · To what, where: good trick, Priest, me, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Governor, fellow), 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 play	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 play	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trick	det
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trick	amod
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Priest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Priest	det
12	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 sitting	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sitting	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 play	advcl
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	19 there	advmod
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sitting	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calling	cc
21	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sitting	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 calling	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fool	det
24	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calling	obj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 having	mark
26	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 calling	advcl
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	cc
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 let	obj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 taken	aux:pass
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 having	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	30 taken	compound:prt
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 fellow	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 fellow	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 fellow	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not play off	could	you	a good trick	the Priest	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
2	sit	present · progressive	Governor		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	Governor not said here	me		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme fool=Result
4	have	gerund	Governor not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive		myself		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
6	take in	infinitive · passive	such fellow as you			vn bring-11.3 «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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