The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 10

They stayed some time inside, and Ali Baba, fearing they might come out and catch him, was forced to sit patiently in the tree.

Who acts: rocks · What happens: stay, fear, come out, catch, force, sit · To what, where: Ali, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (rocks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ali	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Ali	cc
8	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ali	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fearing	punct
11	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stayed	advcl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fearing	ccomp
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 catch	cc
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 catch	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forced	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forced	aux:pass
21	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stayed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sit	mark
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forced	xcomp
24	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	23 sit	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	rocks = rock	Ali		time	inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	gerund	rocks = rock not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come out	might	rocks = rock				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	catch	infinitive	rocks = rock not said here	Ali				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	force	past · passive	rocks = rock not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic
6	sit	to-infinitive	rocks = rock not said here		the tree		patiently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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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