The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 111

He found all the gang was dead, and, missing the oil out of the last jar, became aware of the manner of their death.

Who acts: captain, gang, jars · What happens: find, be, miss, become, die · To what, where: oil, last jar · 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 (captain, gang, jars), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gang	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gang	det
5	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 missing	punct
11	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 became	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oil	det
13	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 missing	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 jar	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 jar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jar	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 jar	amod
18	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 missing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 missing	punct
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
21	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 became	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 manner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 manner	det
24	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 aware	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 death	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 death	nmod:poss
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 manner	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	captain				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	all gang			dead property	tree rules
3	miss	gerund		the oil	the last jar		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oil=Stimulus
4	become	past	captain not said here			aware property	tree rules
5	die		jars = jar				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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