The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 39

‘If I had but the fellow to it, I would carry it home with me, and then I should put my old woman into a good humour for once.’

Who acts: I, fellow · What happens: have, carry, put · To what, where: shoe, old woman, good humour

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 (I, fellow), 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 had	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 carry	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fellow	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 carry	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	home	home	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 put	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 put	aux
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 carry	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 woman	nmod:poss
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 humour	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 humour	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 humour	amod
30	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry	would	the fellow to shoe	shoe				with me; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	should	I		my old woman	a good humour	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Goal

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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