The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 135
“I am not surprised,” she said to herself, “that this wicked man, who intends to kill my master, will eat no salt with him; but I will hinder his plans.”
Who acts: Morgiana, wicked man, salt · What happens: not be, say, intend, kill, eat, hinder · To what, where: Morgiana, master, salt, plans · Speech: someone speaks here
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, wicked man, salt), 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 | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eat | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 eat | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 man | mark |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 intends | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 intends | nsubj |
| 20 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 kill | mark |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 intends | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 eat | aux |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 salt | det |
| 29 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eat | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 eat | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 hinder | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 hinder | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 hinder | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 hinder | aux |
| 36 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 surprised | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 plans | nmod:poss |
| 38 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hinder | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Morgiana | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Morgiana | Morgiana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | intend in a quote | present | this wicked man | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | this wicked man not said here | my master | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | future | this wicked man | no salt | with salt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | |||
| 6 | hinder in a quote | future | Morgiana | salt's plans | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer plan=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | plan in a quote | salt | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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