The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 138

Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl’s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.”

Who acts: you, us · What happens: put, clasp, hang, say, take, let · To what, where: head dress, girdle, dagger, Abdallah, tabor, us · 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 (you, us), 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	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 put	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Morgiana	punct
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meanwhile	punct
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 dress	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dress	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dress	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 girl	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 girl	det
13	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 girl	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 dancing	punct
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 girl	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clasped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 clasped	cc
19	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girdle	det
21	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clasped	obj
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 waist	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 waist	nmod:poss
24	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clasped	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hung	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hung	nsubj
28	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clasped	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dagger	det
30	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hung	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 hilt	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hilt	det
33	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hilt	amod
34	hilt	hilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hung	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hung	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Abdallah	case
39	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 said	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 Take	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 Take	punct
42	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 said	ccomp
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 tabor	nmod:poss
44	tabor	tabor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Take	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 let	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 let	cc
47	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 Take	conj
48	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 let	obj
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 let	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 divert	cc
51	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 go	conj
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 master	nmod:poss
53	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 divert	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 guest	cc
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 guest	nmod:poss
56	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 divert	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here			a head dress	like a dancing girl; Morgiana vocative; meanwhile property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination
2	clasp	past	you not said here	a girdle			round Morgiana's waist	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme
3	hang	past		a dagger			with a silver hilt	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient with hilt=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past			Abdallah			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to abdallah=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	infinitive		your tabor				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabor=Theme
6	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
7	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	divert in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	our master				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus master=Experiencer

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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