The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 154
He brought away as much gold as he could carry, and returned to town.
Who acts: captain · What happens: bring away, carry, return · To what, where: much gold
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 (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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brought | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring away | past | captain | much gold | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | could | captain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past | captain not said here | to town result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |
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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