The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 24
“I will go borrow a measure of someone, while you dig the hole.”
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: go, borrow, dig, measure · To what, where: measure, hole, someone
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 (wife, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 measure | det |
| 7 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 borrow | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 someone | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 measure | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dig | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 dig | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 dig | nsubj |
| 13 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dig | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Ali's wife = wife | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | borrow in a quote | infinitive | Ali's wife = wife not said here | a measure of someone | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dig in a quote | present | you | the hole | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | measure in a quote | someone | nom measure «act transitive»: of=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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