The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 38
He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests.
Who acts: Cassim · What happens: rise, set out, load · To what, where: ten mules
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 (Cassim), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 rose | advmod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mules | case |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 mules | nummod |
| 12 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mules | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 chests | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chests | amod |
| 16 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loaded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Cassim | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | Cassim not said here | with ten mules | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | participle | ten mules not said here | with great chests | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chest=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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