The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 203
‘Well, it might be done,’ said the Master Thief, ‘if I were absolutely certain that I should get your daughter.’
Who acts: Master Thief, I · What happens: do, say, be, get · To what, where: fool, 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 (Master Thief, I), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 done | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Thief | det |
| 12 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Thief | compound |
| 13 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 certain | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 certain | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 certain | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 certain | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 certain | cop |
| 19 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 20 certain | advmod |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 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 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | might · passive | fool | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Thief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | I | absolutely, certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | should | I | your daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
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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