The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 136
She sent up the supper by Abdallah, while she made ready for one of the boldest acts that could be thought on.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: send up, make, think on · To what, where: supper, boldest acts
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sent | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 supper | det |
| 5 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Abdallah | case |
| 7 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 acts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 acts | det |
| 17 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 acts | amod |
| 18 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thought | aux:pass |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 acts | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 thought | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send up | past | Morgiana | the supper | by Abdallah | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | Morgiana | for one of the boldest acts; ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for one=Asset | ||||
| 3 | think on speech: other | could · passive | the boldest acts | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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