The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 115
Morgiana bade him look in the first jar and see if there was any oil.
Who acts: oil · What happens: look, see, be · To what, where: Morgiana bade
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 (oil), 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 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | compound |
| 2 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jar | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 jar | amod |
| 8 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 oil | det |
| 15 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Morgiana bade | in the first jar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in jar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | any oil | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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