The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 29
‘Yes,’ said they, ‘if you have a mind to take to the trade that we follow, you may have a place here.’
Who acts: robbers, you, we · What happens: say, have, take, follow · To what, where: mind, trade, place · 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 (robbers, you, we), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mind | det |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mind | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 trade | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trade | det |
| 18 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 follow | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | nsubj |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trade | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 have | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | robbers = robber | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | you not said here | a mind not said here | to the trade result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trade=Result | |||
| 4 | follow | present | we | the trade | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | may | you | a place | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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