The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 109
He listened, and as none of his men seemed to stir he grew uneasy, and went down into the yard.
Who acts: captain, none · What happens: listen, seem, stir, grow, go down
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 (captain, none), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | mark |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 none | nmod |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stir | mark |
| 12 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stir | ccomp |
| 15 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 yard | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 yard | det |
| 22 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | captain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | none | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | stir | to-infinitive | none not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | captain | uneasy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go down | past | captain not said here | into the yard; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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