The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 100
When she came to the first jar the robber inside said softly: “Is it time?”
Who acts: Morgiana, robber, yard · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: first jar, time · 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 (Morgiana, robber, yard), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 jar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jar | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 jar | amod |
| 7 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 robber | det |
| 9 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Morgiana | the first jar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the robber | inside, softly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | yard | time | tree rules |
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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