The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 121
They then buried the bodies in Ali Baba’s garden, while the mules were sold in the market by his slaves.
Who acts: men, slaves · What happens: bury, sell · To what, where: bodies, garden, mules, market
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 (men, slaves), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 buried | advmod |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bodies | det |
| 5 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buried | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Baba | compound |
| 8 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Baba | case |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sold | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 sold | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mules | det |
| 14 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sold | aux:pass |
| 16 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 buried | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 market | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 market | det |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 slaves | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 22 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sold | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | men = man | the bodies | Ali Baba's garden | then | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in garden=Destination | ||
| 2 | sell | past · passive | Baba's slaves | the mules | the market | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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