The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 25
So she ran to the wife of Cassim and borrowed a measure.
Who acts: wife · What happens: run, borrow · To what, where: measure
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Cassim | case |
| 8 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 borrowed | cc |
| 10 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 measure | det |
| 12 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrowed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | wife | to the wife of Cassim result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past | wife not said here | a measure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=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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