The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 54

Do go out and see what’s the matter; perhaps thieves may be stealing our sausages.’

Who acts: you, thieves · What happens: go out, see, steal · To what, where: sausages

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 (you, thieves), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	aux
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ’s	nsubj
7	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ’s	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 stealing	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 stealing	advmod
12	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stealing	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stealing	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 stealing	aux
15	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 go	advcl
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sausages	nmod:poss
17	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stealing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative · do-support	you not said here		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	steal	may · progressive	thieves	our sausages	perhaps property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sausage=Theme

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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