The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 224
Well, the Master Thief thought he might if he could hear what it was.
Who acts: Master Thief, Governor, masterpiece · What happens: think, hear, be
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, Governor, masterpiece), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Thief | det |
| 4 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thief | compound |
| 5 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 hear | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 what | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Master Thief | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear a condition, not said to happen | could | Governor | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | masterpiece | tree rules |
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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