The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 214

‘If you will ride into that wood, and search it carefully to see if you can light upon a fellow who is hiding in there, you shall have the loan of my horse and a good present of money for your trouble.’

Who acts: you, fellow, your · What happens: ride, search, see, light, hide, have · To what, where: wood, loan, horse

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, fellow, your), 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	_	5 ride	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 ride	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ride	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ride	aux
5	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 search	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 search	cc
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ride	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 search	obj
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	11 search	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 search	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 light	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 light	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 light	aux
19	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 fellow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 light	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hiding	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hiding	aux
25	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fellow	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 there	case
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 hiding	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 search	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 loan	det
33	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 horse	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horse	nmod:poss
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loan	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 present	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 present	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 present	amod
40	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loan	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 money	case
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 present	nmod
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 trouble	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 trouble	nmod:poss
45	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 present	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ride	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	future	you		that wood		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wood=Trajectory
2	search	infinitive	you not said here	wood		carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	light a condition, not said to happen	can	you			upon a fellow	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hide	present · progressive	a fellow				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in there=Location
6	have	shall	you	the loan of my horse and a good present of money for your trouble			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient
7	loan			my horse			nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient
8	trouble		your				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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