The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 172
If the Governor were to catch sight of you here, he would lead us a pretty dance,’ said one.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: catch, lead, say, sight · To what, where: sight, us, one, 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 (Governor), 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 | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Governor | det |
| 3 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lead | advcl |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 catch | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 catch | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lead | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lead | aux |
| 14 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lead | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dance | det |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dance | amod |
| 18 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lead | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lead | parataxis |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch a condition, not said to happen | past | the Governor | sight of you | here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | would | Governor | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sight | you | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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