The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 17

‘It wouldn’t be good for you to sleep here,’ said the old hag, ‘for if the people of the house come home and find you, they will kill both you and me.’

Who acts: youth, you, people · What happens: not be, sleep, say, come, find, kill · To what, where: old hag, you · 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 (youth, you, people), 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	_	6 good	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 good	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 sleep	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	advcl
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sleep	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sleep	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hag	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hag	amod
17	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 people	nmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	parataxis
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 find	cc
30	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 find	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kill	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 kill	aux
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	conj
36	both	both	CCONJ	_	37 you	cc:preconj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 kill	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 me	cc
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 you	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	would	youth			good property	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	you		here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		the old hag			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hag=Topic
4	come a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	the people of the house			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	present	the people of the house not said here	you			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
6	kill	future	people	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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