The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 202
‘Do you think you can steal my horse from under me when I am out riding on it?’ said he.
Who acts: you, I, Governor · What happens: think, steal, ride, say · To what, where: horse, fool · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 steal | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 steal | aux |
| 7 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steal | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 steal | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 riding | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 riding | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 riding | aux |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 am | compound:prt |
| 17 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 think | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 riding | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | can | you | my horse | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 3 | ride | present · progressive | I | fool | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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