The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 198

‘Ah, well,’ said the Governor, ‘it is easy to see who has been here; but what a worthless set of fellows you must be to sit here and let the Master Thief steal the horses from under you!’

Who acts: Governor, Master Thief · What happens: say, be, see, sit, let, steal · 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 (Governor, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Governor	det
9	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 easy	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	cop
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 easy	csubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 here	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 see	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 what	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 set	det
25	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 set	amod
26	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 fellows	case
28	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 set	nmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 must	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 set	acl:relcl
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 must	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sit	mark
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 be	xcomp
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sit	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sit	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Thief	det
38	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Thief	compound
39	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 steal	nsubj
40	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 let	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 horses	det
42	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 steal	obj
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 you	case
44	under	under	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 steal	obl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Governor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Governor not said here			easy property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present · perfect				here property	tree rules
5	be	infinitive	the Governor not said here				tree rules
6	sit	to-infinitive	the Governor not said here		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	let	infinitive	the Governor not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
8	steal	present	the Master Thief	the horses		from you	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from you=Source

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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