The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40
So they collected their jewels and a few clothes and left the house without being observed by anyone.
Who acts: men, anyone · What happens: collect, leave, observe · To what, where: jewels, house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, anyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 collected | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 collected | nsubj |
| 3 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 5 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collected | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clothes | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 jewels | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 collected | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 observed | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 observed | aux:pass |
| 16 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 left | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 anyone | case |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 observed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | men = man | men's jewels and a few clothes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | men = man not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | observe | gerund · passive | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/40/