The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 159
If you are clever enough to steal the horses from under them, I will see what I can do for you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, steal, see, do · To what, where: horses · 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, I), 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 clever | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | cop |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 see | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 clever | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 steal | mark |
| 7 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 clever | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 steal | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 steal | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | clever, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | you not said here | the horses | from horses = horse | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from they=Source | |||
| 3 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | can | I | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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