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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

ccnsubjauxadvmoddetobjmarkacldetamodobjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisobjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetobjpunctccconjcasedetoblnsubjnsubjflatcopdetcompoundnmodpunctccconjdetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootButCCONJshePRONcouldAUXnotPARTwithstandVERBaDETdesireNOUNtoPARTseeVERBthisDETstrangeADJmanNOUN,PUNCTsoADVshePRONhelpedVERBAbdallahPROPNtoPARTcarryVERBupADPtheDETdishesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsawVERBinADPaDETmomentNOUNthatPRONCogiaPROPNHassanPROPNwasAUXtheDETrobberNOUNCaptainPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJcarriedVERBaDETdaggerNOUNunderADPhisPRONgarmentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_5 withstandcc
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 withstandnsubj
3couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin5 withstandaux
4notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 withstandadvmod
5withstandwithstandVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 desiredet
7desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing5 withstandobj
8totoPART_9 seemark
9seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 desireacl
10thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem12 mandet
11strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos12 manamod
12manmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 seeobj
13,,PUNCT_16 helpedpunct
14sosoADV_16 helpedadvmod
15sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 helpednsubj
16helpedhelpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 withstandparataxis
17AbdallahAbdallahPROPNNumber=Sing16 helpedobj
18totoPART_19 carrymark
19carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf16 helpedxcomp
20upupADP_19 carrycompound:prt
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 dishesdet
22dishesdishNOUNNumber=Plur19 carryobj
23,,PUNCT_25 sawpunct
24andandCCONJ_25 sawcc
25sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 helpedconj
26ininADP_28 momentcase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 momentdet
28momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing25 sawobl
29thatthatPRONPronType=Rel35 Captainnsubj
30CogiaCogiaPROPNNumber=Sing35 Captainnsubj
31HassanHassanPROPNNumber=Sing30 Cogiaflat
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 Captaincop
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Captaindet
34robberrobberNOUNNumber=Sing35 Captaincompound
35CaptainCaptainPROPNNumber=Sing28 momentnmod
36,,PUNCT_38 carriedpunct
37andandCCONJ_38 carriedcc
38carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 sawconj
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 daggerdet
40daggerdaggerNOUNNumber=Sing38 carriedobj
41underunderADP_43 garmentcase
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 garmentnmod:poss
43garmentgarmentNOUNNumber=Sing38 carriedobl
44..PUNCT_5 withstandpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not withstandcouldMorgianaa desiretree rules
2seeto-infinitiveMorgiana not said herethis strange manvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3helppastMorgianaAbdallahvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent abdallah=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4carry upto-infinitiveAbdallah not said herethe dishesvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
5seepastMorgiana not said heremomentvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6is apastthatthe robber Captaintree rules
7carrypastMorgiana not said herea daggersalt's garmentvn 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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