The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 102

She went to all the jars, giving the same answer, till she came to the jar of oil.

Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: go, give, come · To what, where: jars, same answer, jar

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 jars	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 jars	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jars	det
6	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 giving	punct
8	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 answer	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answer	amod
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 jar	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jar	det
18	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 oil	case
20	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jar	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Morgiana		all jars	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial_Location
2	give	gerund	Morgiana not said here	the same answer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
3	come	past	Morgiana		the jar of oil	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial_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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