Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 19

Do you fancy I shall be so stupid as to put the means into your hands of escaping?

Who acts: you, I, the, hands · What happens: fancy, be, put, mean, escape · To what, where: hands

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, the, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fancy	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fancy	nsubj
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stupid	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stupid	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 stupid	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 stupid	advmod
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fancy	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 put	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 put	mark
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stupid	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 put	ccomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 means	obl
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 escaping	mark
18	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 hands	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	present · do-support	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	shall	I		stupid property	tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	I not said here			tree rules
4	mean	present	the	your hands		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	escape	gerund	your hands not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 19