The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 1
In a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba.
What happens: dwell, name · To what, where: two brothers, town, one
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Persia | case |
| 5 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwelt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 named | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dwelt | conj |
| 13 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Baba | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Baba | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Baba | amod |
| 17 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Baba | compound |
| 18 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cassim | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | two brothers | a town in Persia; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location | ||||
| 2 | name | participle · passive | one | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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