The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 132
‘Well, it wouldn’t be very hard to do that,’ said the Master Thief.
Who acts: it, Master Thief · What happens: not be, do, say · To what, where: that · 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 (it, Master Thief), 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 | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 hard | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hard | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hard | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Thief | det |
| 17 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Thief | compound |
| 18 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | it | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Thief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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