The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 151
At the end of a year Ali Baba, hearing nothing of the two remaining robbers, judged they were dead, and set out to the cave.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: hear, be, set out · To what, where: nothing, end, cave
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 (robbers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dead | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 year | appos |
| 8 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ali | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hearing | punct |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 end | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 hearing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 robbers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robbers | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 robbers | nummod |
| 15 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robbers | amod |
| 16 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 18 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dead | cop |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dead | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dead | cop |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dead | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 cave | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cave | det |
| 28 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | robbers = robber | at the end of a year | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location |
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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