The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 134
But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment.
Who acts: Morgiana, Abdallah, that · What happens: not withstand, see, help, carry up, be, carry · To what, where: desire, strange man, Abdallah, dishes, robber Captain, dagger
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 (Morgiana, Abdallah, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 withstand | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 withstand | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 withstand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 withstand | advmod |
| 5 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 desire | det |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 withstand | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 desire | acl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 man | det |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 helped | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 helped | nsubj |
| 16 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withstand | parataxis |
| 17 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 helped | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 carry | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dishes | det |
| 22 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 helped | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 moment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 Captain | nsubj |
| 30 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Captain | nsubj |
| 31 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Cogia | flat |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Captain | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Captain | det |
| 34 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Captain | compound |
| 35 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 moment | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 carried | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 carried | cc |
| 38 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 dagger | det |
| 40 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carried | obj |
| 41 | under | under | ADP | _ | 43 garment | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 garment | nmod:poss |
| 43 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carried | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 withstand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not withstand | could | Morgiana | a desire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Morgiana not said here | this strange man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | past | Morgiana | Abdallah | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent abdallah=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry up | to-infinitive | Abdallah not said here | the dishes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Morgiana not said here | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | that | the robber Captain | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry | past | Morgiana not said here | a dagger | salt's garment | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=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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