The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 225
‘Do you think you can steal the sheet off our bed, and my wife’s night-gown?’ said the Governor.
Who acts: you, night gown · What happens: think, steal, say · To what, where: sheet, bed · 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, night gown), 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 | root | root |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sheet | det |
| 9 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steal | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sheet | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gown | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gown | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gown | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gown | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 gown | punct |
| 20 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 gown | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 gown | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Governor | det |
| 25 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | 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 | the sheet | our bed | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme off bed=Source | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | my wife's night gown | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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