The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 31
‘Have you a fancy for stealing, then?’ said the robbers.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, say · To what, where: fancy, robbers · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Have | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fancy | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 stealing | case |
| 7 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fancy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Have | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robbers | det |
| 14 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a fancy | then | for stealing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the robbers | 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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