The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 149

Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves.”

Who acts: you, enemy · What happens: look, be · To what, where: false oil merchant

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, enemy), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 merchant	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 merchant	cop
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 merchant	cc:preconj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
9	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 merchant	amod
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 merchant	compound
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Captain	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Captain	det
14	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 merchant	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Thieves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Thieves	det
17	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Thieves	compound
18	Thieves	Thief	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Captain	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					at enemy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	is a	present	enemy	the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves					tree rules

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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