The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 17
‘The courtyard might be full of thieves and he’d never discover it.
Who acts: courtyard, husband · What happens: be, not discover · To what, where: courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtyard, husband), 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 | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtyard | det |
| 3 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 full | cop |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thieves | case |
| 8 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 discover | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discover | nsubj |
| 11 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 discover | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 discover | advmod |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 full | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discover | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | the courtyard | of thieves; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not discover | past | husband | courtyard | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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