The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 131

He went to give this order to Morgiana, who was much surprised.

Who acts: salt, Morgiana · What happens: go, give, be · To what, where: order, Morgiana

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 (salt, Morgiana), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 order	det
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Morgiana	case
8	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 order	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprised	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 surprised	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surprised	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 surprised	advmod
13	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Morgiana	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	salt				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	salt not said here	this order	Morgiana		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to morgiana=Recipient
3	is	past	Morgiana			surprised property	tree rules

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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