The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 20
Using the words: “Shut, Sesame!” he closed the door and went home.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: use, close, go · To what, where: words, door
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), 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 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 closed | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Using | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shut | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shut | punct |
| 6 | Shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Using | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sesame | punct |
| 8 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shut | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shut | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shut | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 closed | nsubj |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 closed | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | the words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||||
| 2 | close | past | Ali | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Ali not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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