The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 139

Abdallah took his tabor and played before Morgiana until they came to the door, where Abdallah stopped playing and Morgiana made a low courtesy.

Who acts: Abdallah, men, Morgiana · What happens: take, play, come, stop, make · To what, where: tabor, door, low courtesy

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 (Abdallah, men, 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	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tabor	nmod:poss
4	tabor	tabor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 played	cc
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 Morgiana	case
8	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 played	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stopped	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 stopped	advmod
17	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stopped	nsubj
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
19	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stopped	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 playing	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 courtesy	det
24	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 courtesy	amod
25	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Abdallah	Abdallah's tabor			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabor=Theme
2	play	past	Abdallah not said here			before Morgiana	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	men = man		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
4	stop	past	Abdallah				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	play	gerund	Abdallah not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	Morgiana	a low courtesy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtesy=Product

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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