The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 160

‘What you set me to do can be done,’ said the Master Thief, ‘but am I certain to get your daughter when it is?’

Who acts: you, Master Thief, I, place · What happens: set, do, say, be, get · To what, where: me, daughter · 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, Master Thief, I, place), 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	_	10 done	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 done	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Thief	det
15	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Thief	compound
16	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 certain	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 certain	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 certain	cc
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 certain	cop
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 certain	nsubj
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 certain	advcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 is	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 get	advcl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 certain	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	you	me		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	can · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	the Master Thief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present	I		certain property	tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	your daughter		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
7	be	present	place			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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