The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 21

Then he drove his asses into the yard, shut the gates, carried the money-bags to his wife, and emptied them out before her.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: drive, shut, carry, empty out · To what, where: asses, gates, money bags, wife, bags

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drove	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 asses	nmod:poss
5	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drove	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shut	punct
10	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drove	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gates	det
12	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shut	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bags	det
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bags	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 money	punct
18	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 emptied	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 emptied	cc
24	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 emptied	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	24 emptied	compound:prt
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 emptied	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Ali	Ali's asses		then	into the yard	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ass=Theme into yard=Trajectory
2	shut	infinitive	Ali not said here	the gates				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
3	carry	past		the money bags	Ali's wife			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to wife=Destination
4	empty out	past		bags = bag		before wife		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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