The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 96

‘If he asks what trade I follow, you may say that I am a Master Thief,’ said he.

Who acts: father, I, you · What happens: ask, follow, say, be · To what, where: trade, Master Thief · 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 (father, I, 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	_	12 say	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 asks	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asks	obj
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 follow	nsubj
8	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trade	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Thief	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Thief	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Thief	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Thief	det
17	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Thief	compound
18	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	follow	present	I	trade not said here	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme
3	say speech: assert	may	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	I	a Master Thief	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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