The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 124
In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba’s son.
Who acts: Baba · What happens: carry away, set up · To what, where: many rich stuffs, forest, shop opposite
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 journeys | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journeys | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 journeys | amod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 journeys | amod |
| 8 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 course | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 journeys | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stuffs | amod |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stuffs | amod |
| 17 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 linen | cc |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 linen | amod |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 linen | amod |
| 21 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuffs | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carried | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 opposite | det |
| 27 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 opposite | compound |
| 28 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 son | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 son | case |
| 31 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ali | flat |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Ali | case |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 opposite | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 journeys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | Baba | many rich stuffs and much fine linen | the forest | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme to forest=Destination | ||
| 2 | set up | participle | Baba not said here | a shop opposite | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient opposite=Result |
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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