The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 153
He went in, and saw that nobody had been there since the Captain left it.
Who acts: Ali, nobody, Captain · What happens: go in, see, be, leave · To what, where: door · 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 (Ali, nobody, Captain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 there | mark |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 there | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 15 left | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Captain | det |
| 14 | Captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Ali | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Ali not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | nobody | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the Captain | door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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