The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 226
‘That is by no means impossible,’ said the Master Thief.
Who acts: no, Master Thief · What happens: mean, say · 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 (no, Master Thief), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 no | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 no | cop |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 no | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | no | impossible property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Thief | 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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