The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 59

‘How I should like to know if you really were so sick at heart that you hanged yourself there, or if it is only a hobgoblin that’s before me!’ said the man.

Who acts: I, you, youth, man · What happens: like, know, be, hange, say · To what, where: heart, hobgoblin · 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 (I, you, youth, man), 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 like	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 like	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 sick	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sick	nsubj
10	really	really	ADV	_	13 sick	advmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sick	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 sick	advmod
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 know	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 heart	case
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sick	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hanged	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 hanged	nsubj
18	hanged	hange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heart	acl:relcl
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 hanged	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 hanged	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hobgoblin	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 hobgoblin	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 hobgoblin	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hobgoblin	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hobgoblin	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 hobgoblin	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hobgoblin	det
28	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sick	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ’s	nsubj
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hobgoblin	acl:relcl
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ’s	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	you		heart	sick property	tree rules
4	hange	past	you	heart	there		tree rules
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	youth	a hobgoblin			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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