The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 103
She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: see, think, entertain, let · To what, where: master, oil merchant, eight robbers, house
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 | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 master | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 entertain | mark |
| 10 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thinking | xcomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 merchant | compound |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entertain | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 eight | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 thirty | punct |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 robbers | nummod |
| 20 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 let | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Morgiana | Morgiana's master | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Morgiana not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | entertain | to-infinitive | Morgiana not said here | a oil merchant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus merchant=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | let | past · perfect | Morgiana not said here | eight robbers | master's house | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=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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