The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 133
“He is an honest man, Morgiana,” returned her master; “therefore do as I bid you.”
Who acts: salt, honest man, man · What happens: be, return, do, bid · To what, where: honest man, master, you
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, honest man, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Morgiana | punct |
| 8 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 returned | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 bid | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bid | nsubj |
| 20 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bid | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | salt | a honest man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | a honest man | Morgiana's master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | therefore property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | past | this man = man | you | 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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