The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 27
Ali Baba’s wife went home and set the measure on the heap of gold, and filled it and emptied it often, to her great content.
Who acts: wife · What happens: go, set, fill, empty · To what, where: measure, heap, great content
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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ali | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 measure | det |
| 10 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 heap | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heap | det |
| 13 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heap | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 filled | cc |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 filled | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 emptied | cc |
| 21 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 filled | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 emptied | obj |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 emptied | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 content | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 content | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 content | nmod:poss |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 content | amod |
| 28 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emptied | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ali's wife | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Ali's wife not said here | the measure | the heap of gold | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme on heap=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | past | measure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | empty | past | measure | wife's great content | often property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to content=Destination |
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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