The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 28

She then carried it back to her sister, without noticing that a piece of gold was sticking to it, which Cassim’s wife perceived directly her back was turned.

Who acts: wife, piece · What happens: carry back, notice, stick, perceive, turn · To what, where: measure, sister, back

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, piece), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 carried	advmod
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sister	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noticing	punct
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 noticing	mark
11	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 carried	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 sticking	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sticking	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sticking	aux
18	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 noticing	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sticking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 perceived	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 perceived	obj
23	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Cassim	case
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 perceived	nsubj
26	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
27	directly	directly	ADV	_	26 perceived	advmod
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	aux:pass
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 perceived	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry back	past	wife	measure	wife's sister	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sister=Destination
2	notice	gerund	wife not said here					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	stick	past · progressive	a piece of gold		measure			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient
4	perceive	past	Cassim's wife				directly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	turn	past · passive		wife's back				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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