The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 119

“Merchant!” said she, “he is no more a merchant than I am!” and she told him the whole story, assuring him that it was a plot of the robbers of the forest, of whom only three were left, and that the white and red chalk marks had something to do with it.

Who acts: Merchant, Morgiana, story, white chalk marks · What happens: say, not be, tell, assure, be, leave · To what, where: whole story, merchant, plot, three, something · 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 (Merchant, Morgiana, story, white chalk marks), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Merchant	punct
2	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Merchant	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Merchant	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 more	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 more	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 more	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 merchant	det
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 more	nsubj
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 am	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 am	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 more	advcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 assuring	punct
28	assuring	assure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 told	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 assuring	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 plot	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 plot	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 plot	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 plot	det
34	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 assuring	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 robbers	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 robbers	det
37	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 plot	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 forest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 forest	det
40	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 robbers	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 left	punct
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 whom	case
43	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 left	obl
44	only	only	ADV	_	45 three	advmod
45	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 left	nsubj:pass
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 left	aux:pass
47	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 assuring	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 had	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 marks	det
52	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 marks	amod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 red	cc
54	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 white	conj
55	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 marks	compound
56	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 had	nsubj
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
58	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 had	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 do	mark
60	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 something	acl
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 it	case
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 do	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Merchant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	Morgiana			more property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Morgiana	the whole story	merchant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
4	assure	gerund	Morgiana not said here		merchant		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past	story	a plot		of the robbers of the forest	tree rules
6	leave	past · passive		three			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of whom=Destination
7	have	past	the white chalk marks	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
8	do	to-infinitive	the white chalk marks not said here	something not said here		with mark	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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