The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 123

He dressed himself carefully, and went into the town, where he took lodgings in an inn.

Who acts: Baba · What happens: dress, go, take · To what, where: Baba, town, lodgings, inn

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 (Baba), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dressed	nsubj
2	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 dressed	obj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 dressed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dressed	parataxis
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 took	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
15	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 took	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 inn	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 inn	det
18	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Baba	Baba		carefully property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	go	past			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
3	take	past	Baba	lodgings	a inn		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lodging=Value in inn=Location

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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