The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 19
He did not look at the silver, but brought out as many bags of gold as he thought his asses, which were browsing outside, could carry, loaded them with the bags, and hid it all with fagots.
Who acts: Ali, asses · What happens: not look, bring out, think, browse, carry, load · To what, where: many bags, asses, silver
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, asses), 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 | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 silver | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bags | amod |
| 14 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bags | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 asses | nmod:poss |
| 21 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thought | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 browsing | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 browsing | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 browsing | aux |
| 25 | browsing | browse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 asses | conj |
| 26 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 25 browsing | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carry | punct |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 loaded | punct |
| 31 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 loaded | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 bags | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bags | det |
| 35 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 loaded | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hid | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hid | cc |
| 38 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 loaded | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hid | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 it | det |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 fagots | case |
| 42 | fagots | fagot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hid | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | Ali | at the silver | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at silver=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past | many bags of gold | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ali | Ali's asses | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ass=Theme | ||||
| 4 | browse | past · progressive | Ali's asses | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | could | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | load | past | asses = ass | with the bags | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with bag=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hide | past | silver | with fagots | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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