The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 17
He saw rich bales of merchandise--silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses.
Who acts: Ali, rich bales · What happens: see, pile · To what, where: rich bales, heaps, all
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, rich bales), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bales | amod |
| 4 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 merchandise | case |
| 6 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bales | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 silk | punct |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bales | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brocades | punct |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brocades | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuff | punct |
| 12 | brocades | brocade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bales | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 piled | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bales | acl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 piled | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gold | cc |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 silver | cc |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gold | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 heaps | case |
| 23 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 money | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 money | cc |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 purses | case |
| 28 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 purses | compound |
| 29 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 money | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Ali | rich bales of merchandise and silk and stuff brocades | heaps | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bale=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pile | participle · passive | rich bales of merchandise and silk and stuff brocades not said here | all | together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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