The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 12

As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!”

Who acts: Ali · What happens: go, come out, make, pass, close, say · To what, where: last, Thieves, door · 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 (Ali), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Captain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Captain	det
3	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pass	advmod
16	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	ccomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 closed	nsubj
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 closed	advmod
22	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 closed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 closed	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Shut	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Shut	punct
29	Shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saying	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Sesame	punct
31	Sesame	sesame	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Shut	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 Shut	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past			last		as the Captain	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in last=Location
2	come out	past	Ali				first, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	make	past		Thieves = thief				tree rules
4	pass	present					by Ali	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location
5	close	past	Ali	the door		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Ali not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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