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The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 122

The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba.

Who acts: Captain, lonely cave · What happens: return, seem, lose, resolve, avenge, kill · To what, where: companions, Ali Baba

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, lonely cave), 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

detnsubjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjacl:relclxcompcaseoblcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccadvmodconjmarkxcompobjmarkadvclcompoundobjpunctrootTheDETCaptainPROPNreturnedVERBtoADPhisPRONlonelyADJcaveNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONseemedVERBfrightfulADJtoADPhimPRONwithoutADPhisPRONlostVERBcompanionsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJfirmlyADVresolvedVERBtoPARTavengeVERBthemPRONbySCONJkillingVERBAliPROPNBabaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Captaindet
2CaptainCaptainPROPNNumber=Sing3 returnednsubj
3returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_7 cavecase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 cavenmod:poss
6lonelylonelyADJDegree=Pos7 caveamod
7cavecaveNOUNNumber=Sing3 returnedobl
8,,PUNCT_10 seemedpunct
9whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel10 seemednsubj
10seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 caveacl:relcl
11frightfulfrightfulADJDegree=Pos10 seemedxcomp
12totoADP_13 himcase
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 frightfulobl
14withoutwithoutADP_17 companionscase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 companionsnmod:poss
16lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 companionsamod
17companionscompanionNOUNNumber=Plur10 seemedobl
18,,PUNCT_21 resolvedpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 resolvedcc
20firmlyfirmlyADV_21 resolvedadvmod
21resolvedresolveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 returnedconj
22totoPART_23 avengemark
23avengeavengeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 resolvedxcomp
24themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 avengeobj
25bybySCONJ_26 killingmark
26killingkillVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 avengeadvcl
27AliAliPROPNNumber=Sing28 Babacompound
28BabaBabaPROPNNumber=Sing26 killingobj
29..PUNCT_3 returnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastthe Captainto captain's lonely cave resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result
2seempastcaptain's lonely cavewithout captain's lost companions; frightful propertyvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3loseparticiplevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4resolveparticiplethe Captain not said herefirmly propertytree rules
5avengeto-infinitivethe Captain not said herecompanions = companiontree rules
6killgerundthe Captain not said hereAli Babavn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baba=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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