The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 26

‘He must have been a most daring thief,’ said the King, ‘to try and steal the magic bird, for depend upon it the creature must have been well guarded.

Who acts: emperor, King · What happens: dare, be, say, try, steal, depend · To what, where: daring thief, magic bird, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, King), 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	_	9 thief	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thief	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 thief	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 thief	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thief	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thief	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 daring	advmod
8	daring	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 thief	amod
9	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thief	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 try	mark
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 steal	cc
20	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bird	det
22	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bird	amod
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 steal	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 depend	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 depend	case
26	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 depend	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 creature	det
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 guarded	nsubj:pass
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 guarded	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 guarded	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 guarded	aux:pass
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 guarded	advmod
35	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 depend	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dare	gerund				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must · perfect	emperor	a daring thief		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	try	to-infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	steal	infinitive		the magic bird		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
6	depend	infinitive			upon bird	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	guard	must · perfect · passive		the creature	well property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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