The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 22
He bade her keep the secret, and he would go and bury the gold.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: bade, keep, go, bury · To what, where: wife, secret, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bury | cc |
| 13 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gold | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bury | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Ali | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Ali not said here | the secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | would | Ali | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury | infinitive | Ali not said here | the gold | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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