The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 143

Suddenly, out of breath, she snatched the tabor from Abdallah with her left hand, and, holding the dagger in her right hand, held out the tabor to her master.

Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: snatch, hold, hold out · To what, where: tabor, breath, dagger, right hand

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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 snatched	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Suddenly	punct
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 breath	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 breath	case
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatched	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 breath	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snatched	nsubj
8	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tabor	det
10	tabor	tabor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatched	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Abdallah	case
12	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 snatched	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 hand	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
15	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 held	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 held	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dagger	det
22	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 holding	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 holding	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 holding	punct
28	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 snatched	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 held	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tabor	det
31	tabor	tabor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 held	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 master	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 master	nmod:poss
34	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tabor	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snatch	past	Morgiana	the tabor	breath	from Abdallah; with Morgiana's left hand; suddenly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tabor=Theme from abdallah=Source
2	hold	gerund		the dagger	Morgiana's right hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme in hand=Location
3	hold out	participle	Morgiana not said here	the tabor		to Morgiana's master	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabor=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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